[filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?

["Major A" <andras@users.sourceforge.net>]

> > Change
> > the kernel, and applications have access to more memory.
>
> Up to the limit of the pointer and/or size variables used.  If your code

Yes, sorry for not explicitly repeating that.

> If you (not you specifically) understand how virtual memory works, and how
> memory is allocated in a lot of OSs, you'll know it's allocated in rather
> small chunks...and what the kernel process gets is a linked list that
> contains pointers to the different segments of the overall space you
> requested.  Say, you request 64K, you get 16 4k chunks...  The address
> translation done by the OS makes that LOOK like it's contiguous to your
> application, but in reality it isn't.  There is inherent address translation
> done in the CPU hardware.

This is what I've been referring to.

  Andras

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