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From: rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola)
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Subject: Re: How do I increase "Free system resources"
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Date: 11 Dec 90 15:20:56 GMT
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In article <6176@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
>
>Windows has a several things which you can only have a limited number
>of.  The most restrictive is probably that you can only have 8192 windows.
>(Before you say, "Boy, that's a lot!" think for a minute.  Every dialog
>box control, icon, icon title, scroll bar, etc. is a window.  You can use
>up a lot of them in one application.)  There is no way to increase this
>number, except maybe waiting for Windows 3.1.  (I don't know if they plan
>to increase this or not.)
>
I thought a minute, and boy, even that is a lot! Imagine 40 such windows
per application. You would then be limited to 200 applications, not really
a problem for mortals.  I hope any 'improvement' of this sort to version
3.1 does not make Windows use more memory and CPU.  Right now, the main
weakness I see is that it makes your 386 look like a pretty 8MHz AT.  Which
brings me to the point raised by another netter as a question. If I want
to run something fast (like a simulation) I have to go out of Windows, 
loosing its multitasking ability. This doesn't have to be like that, it
should be possible to use 80% of the CPU for the simulation in the
background and share 20% for word processing, printer spooling and 
communications.

Cheers, and happy holidays

Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270