re challenge to microsoft supporters in article may infodev cam ac uk tjrc cus cam ac uk t j r cutts writes even so my point still stands to an extent that k limits appear all over the place where they really are not necessary such as the edit control limit while the k limit may not be necessary limitation they probably fall within the category of reasonable limitations if you find yourself trying to allocate an edit control for more than k of text it s probably time take a good look at your program s design why is there such a small limit to the number of global memory handles allowed in what way is a small number it seems to me that you d hit the wall in many other ways before you d hit the systemwide limit on global handles unless of course you re abusing globalalloc and please don t try to tell me that it s impossible to abuse the resources available under other operating systems all systems have limits the question is whether or not the limits are reasonable so far you haven t offered a single argument which suggests that windows limits are any less reasonable than limits in other systems rick schaut uucp uunet uw beaver microsoft richs microsoft doesn t speak for me and i don t speak for microsoft
