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Q129952: PC NTMMTA: No Limitations on Memory Management

Article: Q129952
Product(s): Microsoft Mail For PC Networks
Version(s): 3.5
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 09-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Mail Multitasking MTA for Windows NT, version 3.5 
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SUMMARY
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The Mail Multitasking MTA (MMTA) for OS/2, running OS/2 version 1.3, is limited
to 16 megabytes of memory. However, the MMTA running under Microsoft Windows NT
can use all available memory on the Windows NT machine.

MORE INFORMATION
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Some of the memory management limitations of OS/2 1.x are removed. The most
important of these is the limit of 16 MB of physical RAM. The OS/2 subsystem
uses the large memory capability of Windows NT. As a result, you get an increase
in performance, and the applications can use the additional memory.

Protection Model
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The OS/2 subsystem implements protection between OS/2 applications. It constructs
their address spaces (both the flat address space and LDTs) and implements the
same protection as in OS/2.

Segment Swapping
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The OS/2 subsystem uses the Windows NT paging mechanism; no segment swapping is
performed. Paging works better than segment swapping, and it exists in OS/2 only
to support the 80286 processor, which is not supported in Windows NT.

Additional query words: 3.20

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbZNotKeyword2 kbMailSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbMailMMTA350NT
Version           : :3.5

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