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From: Darren New
Date: 13 Oct 2011 19:01:12
Message: <4e976db8@news.povray.org>
On 10/13/2011 15:14, Alain wrote:
> Le 2011/10/13 12:12, andrel a écrit :
>
>> IIRC also the Amiga did not suffer from virtual lock up (nor do I
>> remember it so badly from earlier version of MS-DOS).
>>
>>
>
> IIRC, MS-DOS did not use paging nor virtual memory.

It also didn't have multi-tasking, so you didn't need to deallocate just 
the 
memory for the job that was exiting. You could just delete all the memory
 
allocated since the program started.



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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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