RE: filmscanners: RE: Win2k and application RAM

["Frank Paris" <marshalt@spiritone.com>]

Used to be that NT gave 2G to the OS and 2G to the application. Don't know
what Win 2K does.

Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=62684

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Mike Finley
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 1:33 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: RE: Win2k and application RAM
>
>
> I don't think this is right. There is a total 4GB adressable space,
> including virtual memory. Some of this is probably reserved for the
> operating system, probably reducing the maximum for the
> application to 2GB,
> possibly 3GB. If I have time I'll look into this when I'm in the office
>
> mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of shAf
> Sent: 06 March 2001 15:18
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: filmscanners: RE: Win2k and application RAM
>
>
>
> PAUL GRAHAM writes ...
>
> > I'm planning to get one of the new 4000 dpi medium format
> > scanners for my 6x7 negs, ...
> > ...
> > Got a bit freaked out when I saw that a scan of this size
> > in 16 bit is 624 Mb. (8 bit: 312 Mb)
> > ...
> >
> > Mac OS only allows a max of 1Gb Ram to any one program
> > (eg Photoshop), does Windows 2000 have similar
> > ...
>
>       The memory allocated by Win2k for each program is 4Gb,
> which, I believe, includes virtual memory.
>
> shAf  :o)
>