Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!paravia From: paravia@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark David Kakatsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Basic windows questions Message-ID: <2470@uwm.edu> Date: 21 Feb 90 02:26:38 GMT Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: paravia@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark David Kakatsch) Distribution: all Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 17 Hello. I just bought a Gateway 2000 20Mhz 386 system...It comes standard w/ 4 Megs, 65MB HD, VGA, etc...Quite a nice machine. However, I've been thinking of buying windows 386 for it, and I've got a couple of questions. My memory is configured as extended memory, and drivers came w/ the system that configure it as expanded. Now, how will Windows use this memory? Would it need extended, or expanded? Would I be able to make use of the full 4 Megs, so that I could have, say like 8 500K applications running at once? What about the Windows/286? How does that use memory? I think it would be best to reply by E-mail...Thanks much... Mark -- | Albert Einstein got his name after he got| Mark D. Kakatsch | | smashed from drinking only one stein of | paravia@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | | beer. Hence; Albert EinStein. | ...uwmcsd1!uwmcsd4!paravia |