Win95 runs all dos apps in a seperate VM in VM86. Win32 apps share the
System VM ... ie the one that is present went dos loads becomes the system
vm. All other dos vm's are copied from the system vm, but share a portion
of the first 640K of memory. This is why if you use debug from a dos vm and
overwrite the first 64K of ram. Windows 95/98 crashes.. because you just
overwrote the real mode interrupt table.. So much for a true protected mode
OS ! lol
Windows NT does not use VM86! The dos emulator is a win32 app written by
Insignia.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Northup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: RE: Vocabulary
> Yeah....., not only do they say that it is all in one VM, but that is what
> the Win2k debug team leader said..... to my face. I'll take his word for
> it!!! As for the MSDN library thing you are probably right--that thing is
> full of errors!!!
>
> Drew Northup, N1XIM
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> > Of X-Odus
> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:37 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Vocabulary
> >
> >
> > This probably doesnt matter but:
> > http://www.fayle.freeserve.co.uk/95vmm.htm
> >
> > That says that Win95 and all Win32 processes run in the same VM.
> > I remember
> > something in the MSDN library saying differently. But hey who cares.
> >
> > Amy Lear wrote:
> >
> > > From: X-Odus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > > Look up windows architecture it refers to them as virtual machines.
> > >
> > > I feel obligated to note that in the NT 4.0 terminology, a
> > computer boots from
> > > the system partition, and the OS loads from the boot partition.
> > >
> > > However Microsoft refers to something hardly matters, in many cases.
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