re challenge to microsoft supporters in article may wam umd edu rsrodger wam umd edu yamanari writes in article c d m uceng uc edu bferrell ant occ uc edu brett ferrell writes in article may hubcap clemson edu ludes hubcap clemson edu larry ludes ludwig writes and not being able to adress your memory better than dos not sure what you mean here os sees megs uses or six of these for it s own use more if you want to count winos windows sees megs uses or more like if you count the disk cache as i am for os for itself if memory efficiency were a big issue pc geos would be the current king of the intel desktop i assumed he was referring to os s bit flat model addressing while dos and therefore windows use bit segmented addressing as a programmer i agree that segmentation unnecessarily complicates things it s annoying too but when just a windows user i don t think about it much and i doubt many other people think about it or even care when just writing a document calcing a spreadsheet etc it works and they get their work done just a neutral comment it s funny i think how arguments about windows vs os sound so very similar to arguments about atheism vs christianity or something like that it s somehow very personal to people convictions are irrational and there s nothing wrong with that it s just interesting brad smalling jr ee ga tech atlanta ga gt c prism gatech edu
