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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
Message-ID: <5531@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 28 Mar 90 08:47:20 GMT
References: <53686@microsoft.UUCP> <2017@clyde.concordia.ca> <1990Mar22.202023.25752@seri.gov> <2019@clyde.concordia.ca> <1990Mar28.010044.5653@val.com>
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In article <1990Mar28.010044.5653@val.com> ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) writes:
>>>16) Virtual memory management.
>>Indeed!  Why not?
>
>Definitely!

I have heard second-hand from someone at Microsoft that Windows/386 3.0 will
have demand-paged memory; i.e. if you need more memory, and there's some
that you haven't used in a while (such as the command processor you used to
load Windows), it will get swapped to disk.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu
DISCLAIMER:  Of course, I could be wrong.