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Hi Sam!
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:33:05 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
>> So I think that instead of deciding on a hard limit, we should rather
>> regard the "modern" version of Arachne as one that will be using more
>> XMS and perhaps less conventional memory than the "legacy" one. In
>> I think that many developers are only interested in software for modern
>> machines. Making Arachne work better on modern machines could actually
>> help to attract more developers. On the other hand, if they feel that
>> Arachne is only "the web browser for the poor", they probably would not
>> feel inclined to join the development team.
> Once again I ask you what a "modern" computer might be. I ask because
> the frieght train of PC history is moving so rapidly. For instance,
> I have a 500MHz/128meg machine. Hardly up-to-date at all since for
> three hundred bucks you can now get something at least twice as fast. But
> is that a "modern" machine for Arachne?
Yes, that machine would definetely fit in the "modern" category, since
it obviously has lots of XMS memory - more than Arachne could probably
currently use. Currently, Arachne's usage of XMS memory as xSwap is
limited by available conventional memory, as Joe just told me. A
"modern" machine could be defined as one on which there is more XMS mem
than Arachne could use without depleting conventional mem.
Regards,
Udo
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