Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Windows vs. MAC - programming reasons Message-ID: <1991Apr4.181140.20392@eng.umd.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 18:11:40 GMT References: <19990@imag.imag.fr> <1991Apr3.194824.16965@sunee.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 12 In article <1991Apr3.194824.16965@sunee.waterloo.edu> gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Steffler) writes: >Windows memory management has handles like the MAC. Fortunately tho, the >handles are not in some fixed area like the Mac handle table that has to >be initialized etc. There is no such thing on the Mac either-- you can have as many handles as memory permits, though allocating space at the beginning reduces memory fragmentation (because master pointers must obviously be nonrelocatable!) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.