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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
Summary: Complaining about having resources that are too good
Message-ID: <1633@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 15:29:00 GMT
References: <5664@microsoft.UUCP> <6793@cbmvax.UUCP> <2948@rti.UUCP> <281@xdos.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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In article <281@xdos.UUCP>, doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
> In article <2948@rti.UUCP> bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:
> >
> >I have *NEVER* heard anyone complain because their {machine, operating
> >system} was too fast!



That reminds me of the early days of msods.  There were a number of
programs that pretended the amount of memory was modulo 512K ..
"what?, I don't think anybody is going to have more more than
512K!".  So 640K looked like 128K to those programs which then
politely failed with out-of-memory errors.   We wrote a small TSR
program to eat memory so that only 512K available would be reported
by INT 48H.

Bill
wtm@impulse.UUCP