Re[2]: What are Win2000 Diferance

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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)
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