And lo on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:42:40 +0100, Mike Raiford  
<mra### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>
>> I definitely remember Windows 98 slowly redrawing the desktop as if it  
>> was
>> raytracing the damned wallpaper, while the hard disk made horrible
>> insane-seeking noises.
>
> I remember that, too. I attributed it to the Wallpaper being somewhat  
> dispensable, and being swapped to disk as soon as memory was being  
> needed by the application.

What do the pair of you mean remember? I've still got a 98 machine here  
that does just that if you dare to use more memory then is physically  
present.

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