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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.111936.16550@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1991Apr12.043922.23901@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <8=G24ln1@cs.psu.edu> <1046@stewart.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 11:19:36 GMT

In article <1046@stewart.UUCP> jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
> someone like Lotus will run out of memory under 640K.  And from there, there's
> no way to go with GEOS, except to extend GEOS itself with more sophisticated
> memory management.  Then we'll see how much smaller it will be than Windows.

Nah, it can use less sophisticated memory management in 386 mode: it won't have
to spend all its time juggling segment pointers. One program ... one segment.

Windows' biggest problem isn't memory management... it's the DOS emulation.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.