-=PCTechTalk=- Re: System resources hot

Thanks, Dave, for this clarification and explanation.  Believe it or not, I 
still have a computer here that runs CPM.
THis 'memory leak' problem seems to be increasing although the only things 
that have really changed are updates to WINDOWS and IE.
mjh


In a message dated 10/29/03 12:13:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
wooledge001@xxxxxxxx writes:

> 
> Memory leaks in Win98SE... you can't do anything except reboot.  It is a
> "flaw" in the software, I believe because Windows 98SE runs on top of
> MS-DOS.  MS-DOS is still the true operating system and Windows is the
> GUI, graphical users interface.  Before Windows when we were all running
> MS-DOS or something else like CPM, there were some GUIs.  Windows NT was
> the first Windows version that did not use DOS.  It was an operating
> system that had the GUI built in.  Windows 2000 and Windows XP followed. 
> Prior to 98SE and Me have DOS running also.  There are various programs
> that claim to free the leaked memory.  Many of these just write the
> memory to a swap file on the hard drive.  This may seem like a solution,
> but you sure lose when the CPU has to look for and then get memory  from
> the hard drive.  Also remember that there is a finite amount of system
> resources that Windows uses.  It is unrelated to the actual amount of RAM
> and the unrelated to the size of the swap file.  another cause of memory
> leaks is that programs are not written correctly to "give back" the
> memory it has used when the program in finished.  I believe this can
> happen with the non DOS based Windows too.
> Dave
>    
> 



MJH


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