How on earth could you design an operating system that could detect there wasn't enough virtual memory, expand the virtual memory pool automatically, but would deny applications requests for virtual memory at the same time?
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
The ever-leaky abstractions of Microsoft
I was using Windows XP inside Parallels today and got a message from Windows that I had never seen before:
How on earth could you design an operating system that could detect there wasn't enough virtual memory, expand the virtual memory pool automatically, but would deny applications requests for virtual memory at the same time?
How on earth could you design an operating system that could detect there wasn't enough virtual memory, expand the virtual memory pool automatically, but would deny applications requests for virtual memory at the same time?
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