From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: running DJGPP under DOS
Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:47:15
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> > >I doubt if you could get a much faster compilation, unless the Windows
> > >setup is somehow misconfigured.
> > 
> > Don't forget that winblows suck quite a lot of RAM.
> 
> I didn't forget, but according to my measurements, it takes much less
> than 36MB (unless you have a couple of Word documents open ;-).

Actually I've seen some systems with so many little widgets running in
the system tray area (especially things which get downloaded from the
Web, etc) plus Office startup apps, plus management widgets from the
PC manufacturer, USB/plug and play recognition widgets, scanner drivers,
Realplayer, etc that a 32Mb system had essentially no free memory to
run applications without paging.  Then the pagefile is hopelessly 
fragmented and the system is a slug.  For example, DELL won't even
provide their "proactive support" on systems if you buy then with
only 32Mb of memory!

Any Win 9x system (or newer) with less than 64Mb of memory may be 
trouble if improperly configured.  (If alt-ctrl-del shows more than
2-3 tasks, who knows how many resources they are really eating up).

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