pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1022) (03/02/89)
Two questions:
1) For reasons unknown, my Windows/386 has started crashing whenever
I try to print something within Windows, be it from a Windows
application or a "normal" program. The only change I've made to
my system is that I now have a Vega Deluxe EGA instead of a
generic EGA, and I don't know whether that change coincided with
Windows' decision to be nasty (I don't print things from Windows
very often). I was wondering if anybody else had experienced
similar symptoms, and, if so, what the remedy was.
2) Would it be possible to suspend a virtual machine, and then save
it to disk as a temporary file? Then I could use the memory that
virtual machine had, until I load it from disk and resume it. A
program that I leave running, sometimes for days, will not let me
exit it in the middle and pick up where I left off. Sometimes I
would like to be able to pause it and free the memory it is
hogging. Any chance that future versions of Win/386 will have
any capabilities like this?
Thanks...
Eric
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"I drive my car quietly, for it goes without saying."beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman) (03/06/89)
In article <1247@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1022) writes: > 2) Would it be possible to suspend a virtual machine, and then save > it to disk as a temporary file? Then I could use the memory that > virtual machine had, until I load it from disk and resume it. A > program that I leave running, sometimes for days, will not let me > exit it in the middle and pick up where I left off. Sometimes I > would like to be able to pause it and free the memory it is > hogging. Any chance that future versions of Win/386 will have > any capabilities like this? The current version of Windows/386 (version 2.10) does not support this sort of operation. That is one of the drawbacks of Windows/386 -- it does not make full use of the 80386 processor. The processor is fully capable of automatically (at least to the user) of swapping code to disk as needed; a virtual RAM system, much like the designs used by Unix implementations. I believe that Windows/386 3.0 MAY have some of this capability, but I'm not at all certain. OS/2 does, and therefore the Presentation Manager, if I am not mistaken. Zacharias J. Beckman ... gatech!mdt!pgthor!dev386!beckman ... uunet!mcrware!pgthor!dev386!beckman (319) 354-5116 (319) 351-1993 "MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts." --- Winston Churchill