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Re: [ECS] Memory Usage Ingo Pakleppa Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:46:23 -0700

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192 MB is meaningless in this context. Microsoft touts Windows 95 and 98 as 
32-bit operating systems, but they are really beefed-up 16-bit Windows 3.x. 
And as such, they have a couple of serious legacy restrictions. One of them 
is that the the internal data structures for all windows, buttons, etc. are 
stored in 16-bit data segments which are limited to 64kB each, regardless 
of how much memory you have (I believe Windows uses a total of four such 
segments, so the actual limit is 256kB).

The reason ECS' closing frees up so many resources is that it uses a lot of 
controls for it's groups.

Ingo

At 09:03 AM 4/20/00 -0400, A.J. Griglak wrote:
>My ECS machine has 192 MB RAM, and I run ECS, Winamp, and Symantec's 
>Talkworks Pro.  The system resources are at 30%  Does that sound 
>right?  Closing Talkworks frees up about 7%, Winamp 3%, and closing ECS 
>yields 41%.
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>-=A.J.

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