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Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint

Posted by timothy on from the those-sound-like-good-ideas dept.

bheer writes "Microsoft's Windows 8 blog has a good post about the work being done to reduce Windows 8's memory footprint. The OS will use multiple approaches to do this, including combining RAM pages, re-architecting old bits of code and adding new APIs for more granular memory management. Interestingly, it will also let services start on a trigger and stop when needed instead of running all the time."

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  1. CPM by ArgumentBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    My first self-owned computer was a Kaypro 4-84. The OS was CPM and the machine came with 64K (yes, K) of RAM. When it booted up the screen said it had 63K of RAM. I thought I had been ripped off so I called the company. The tech explained that the other 1K was being used by the OS. So I don't think Windows 8 is going to impress me.

  2. Re:"let services start on a trigger" by mustangsal66 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So windows is finally getting inetd?

    and I hear Windows 8 SP1 will run the 2.6 kernel

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