[filmscanners] Re: Windows Memory Mgt.

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Although it may well be that the SS4000 crashes being experienced relate
to memory management, I know that under "normal" circumstances, the
SS4000 series work fine with Win 9X OS, so there is something happening
for the specific situation causing this problem.  It might be a hardware
failing or I'm beginning to suspect a SCSI problem.

Art

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Edward writes:
>
>
>>I have been told by a friend at Microsoft ...
>>that W98 and 2000 were designed long enough
>>ago that their memory handling is not up to
>>todays graphics demands.
>>
>
> Not quite true.  While all of the Windows 9x family of operating systems are
> very poor at memory management, being essentially 32-bit rehashes of the old
> 16-bit Windows/MS-DOS environment, the Windows NT family--NT itself, Windows
> 2000, and Windows XP--includes very efficient memory management that is more
> than adequate for today's graphics applications.
>
>
>>Specifically, although they can address large
>>arrays of RAM, they can't handle the full size
>>at one time.
>>
>
> Sure they can, at least in the case of Windows 2000.
>
> The Windows 9x family is a waste of time for anyone who needs to do serious
> graphics work, however.
>
>
>>Windows XP is said to be better at this ...
>>
>
> XP and 2000 (and NT) have pretty much the same memory-management
> architecture.  They are all good at managing memory.
>
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