Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows on diskless workstations Message-ID: <600002@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 19 Apr 91 08:30:59 GMT References: <1991Apr13.223145.21978@newsserver.sfu.ca> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 47 / jlamb@npd.Novell.COM (Jason "Nematode" Lamb) / 9:59 am Apr 18, 1991 / writes: > Basically your instinct is right. Since Windows and Windows Apps employs its > own DOS extender (in two of its three modes) and can let its Apps have access > to a larger protected mode address space, the more memory for Windows, the > merrier... > > Only catch is this. You can't tell Windows not to use a swap file. And if it > comes down to using a network workstation's resources for swapping, this is > the preferred order..... 1) Local Hard Drive.. 2) Local RAM Drive.. > 3) NW386 Server drive.. 4) NW286 Server drive.. 5) Version 1.01 of Windows.. > ;-) > Really ??!! I don't know for sure because I don't run networked PC's. You mean you can't edit your own local copy of SYSTEM.INI and add the line "Paging=No" to disable swapping ? I was always under the impression that when sharing Windows code, all you need to do is to maintain a local copy of the following: [1] WIN.COM [2] *.INI <- your all kind of setup. [3] *.GRP <- your Program Manager Groups. [4] *.BMP <- for all your wall paper. Then start Windows from this local directory. With the networked Windows directory in your path of course. ... and everything should work nicely. I do this to start Windows in different configuration by starting in different directories. Cheers. Regards, ___o``\________________________________________________ ___ __ _ _ Peter Lim. V````\ @ @ . .. ... .- -> 76 MIPS at under US$20K !! --- -- - - /.------------------------------------------------ === == = = >--_// . .. ... .- -> 57 MIPS at under US$12K !! `' . If you guessed SUN, IBM or DEC, your are wrong ! E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, Singapore 0410. #include