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From: "David.M.Reed" <dave AT earthling DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Virtual memory??
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 19:54:02 +0000
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 
> Please, PLEASE read the DJGPP FAQ list (available as v2/faq210b.zip from
> the same place you get DJGPP) before posting questions.  The FAQ has a
> whole chapter 15 devoted to memory-related issues, which answers all your
> questions and then some.

But it doesn't mention if/how you can 'turn off' virtual memory, or
somehow force the allocation of physical RAM only. If I tried to write a
game in DJGPP and it decided that the block of memory that I was using
as the frame buffer would be virtual memory, it would look terrible!

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