Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: virtual memory question
Summary: windows, if you consider it an o/s
Message-ID: <1989May20.130726.5081@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 20 May 89 17:07:24 GMT
References: <389.246CA2D2@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <27562@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> crodrigu@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA 
(Cliff Rodriguez) writes:
>I am looking for a way to use my hard disk for virtual memory.
>Which operating systems for the pc support this?
>Does it require a 386.     

   Well, I have used Windows 386 V2.01 on a 286 machine (you invoke it
with the WIN86 command and it won't need a 386) and found that it will
use the disk as backing store to implement VM.  I have a 25 ms hard
drive, so the speed is acceptable.  However, don't consider this to be
an endorement of Windows; it isn't.

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