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From: e4666881@rick.cs.ubc.ca (richard louie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Bad memory caching ? (Win 3.0 memory requirements)
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Date: 17 Oct 90 00:11:11 GMT
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     If you'll read the Windows/3 documentation, I believe that
it states somewhere, that 386 enhanced mode should only be used
on a 386DX or SX with a min. of 2MB of RAM.  1 MB of RAM is
not enough to hold all of the information need for multitasking,
applications, and Windows itself.  While its true that any have
decent OS should have a good paging system, decent OSs also
need a good amount of normal RAM to work.  After all, if you
page continuously to a hard drive, you can't expect anything
but slow on a system.
 
Richard
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