re| memory.limit()

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Paul Gilbert wrote:

...

My limited understand of Windows memory management is that it cannot handle
programs that are bigger than physical memory. Is my understanding correct, and

No.  It has had virtual memory since ca 1990.

Thanks. I had in mind that it was "limited virtual" in the sense that multiple
programs could use more than physical memory, but any one program had to fit in
memory. I guess that is not technically true, but it sounds like it is almost
true for practical purposes.
 
...

The reason for the 1Gb limit is to do with the limited total space Windows
gives (2Gb or 3Gb across all processes).

Does Windows (2000/XP) impose this limit even if there is more physical memory?

Thanks again,
Paul Gilbert
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