[filmscanners] Re: Windows Memory Mgt.
Simon writes: Where did you get this information? From Microsoft. Besides, you can see it for yourself if you look closely at XP; much of the OS still carries the names of used by its direct ancestors. MS has hidden quite a bit and has crippled a few functions so that you have to pay for more functionality, but the basic OS is the same. That's why XP is far more stable than any other home operating system from MS (it easily whips all the Windows 9x flavors and their relatives). Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Windows Memory Mgt.
David writes: All very true, but NT/2k/XP give the user a single, flat 2GB address space, which is getting a bit cramped in this day and age of 4000dpi MF scanners. The 32-bit hardware severely limits addressing beyond a 4 GB boundary. If you want to handle more than 4 GB cleanly, you'll have to go to a 64-bit architecture (which is coming, but isn't quite here yet). Hmm. I wonder if that can be gotten around by having a thread object with it's own address space for each image. The big problem is having a convenient way to address RAM directly. 32 bits = 4 GB. Very much like the problem with MS-DOS and 16-bit addressing, which required that everything be chopped up into 64K chunks. Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
[filmscanners] Re: Windows Memory Mgt.
If you want to handle more than 4 GB cleanly, you'll have to go to a 64-bit architecture (which is coming, but isn't quite here yet). Excuse me? Maybe it's not there in the PC world, but a 16Exabyte address space *is* addressable on a mainframe! (With ease, I might add.) Regards, Barbara Nitz -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
