Re[2]: What are Win2000 Diferance
- Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <tom at almostobsolete.net> Oct 02, 2002
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> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:15:01 -0700, David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> > wrote: >>Under Win95, most pointers returned in Win32Lib tended to be low memory > ... >>under Win95, it would tend to work, because the addresses returned were small >>, but under WinNT, it would > Sounds to me more like a combination of facts: 1) You have 1GB or more > of memory. 2) You are running an operating system which is able to use > it (I believe win95 won't play with more than 256MB - it just ignores > any extra memory the machine has). > Pete On my XP machine I have 256MB of ram but the handles returned by windows are often quite large (to large for an integer), I think this is to do with how virtual memory is handled. The same applied when I was using Win2k as well... Thomas Parslow (PatRat) E-Mail/Jabber: tom at almostobsolete.net ICQ: 26359483