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Help me explain Windows Resources

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damonz28

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I was discussing memory vs. windows (win98) resources with a coworker. He thinks they're one and the same, but from what I understand, they're different. Can you help me explain this to him?
 
Resources is a fixed area of memory, 64kb if I remember correctly. This is hard coded into Windows itself and no amount of memory added to the system will change this figure.
 
The resources figure present in Windows 95, 98, 98SE and ME is a legacy hold-over from Windows 3.1.

The actual "free resources" is the lower value of two 16-bit 64KB stacks, called the GDI and User. Because of the memory management model of the Win3.1/9x/ME, every program with a 16-bit component must take up some of the resources in the stacks.

The stacks are limited, non-expandable and completely independent of the amount of system RAM that you have.
 
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