Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:15:04 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE and pentium cc1plus
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> > 64MB.  But the free physical memory is never more than 5-6MB, and usually 
> > is around 1MB or less.
> 
> Only 1Mb? Wow.

This is on Windows, remember?  I usually have several DJGPP programs
running at once, one of them Emacs which I use to do almost
everything, from editing to compiling to file management to reading my
mail, so Emacs alone needs about 15-20MB, what with all the packages and 
buffers it loads for me.

Besides, in a multi-processing environment, if most of your memory is
occupied, it means that the available memory is used efficiently.
Otherwise, it is just wasted.

Of course, having a DOS configuration where only 1MB is free is *very*
bad.  But this is not that case.