[Info-vax] V9.2-1 Page file size

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:54:36 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 2/25/2024 12:30 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:12:48 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> On Windows plenty of RAM and no/small pagefile works fine.
>> 
>> Really?? Last I heard, Windows would not run without a page/swap file.
>> Did they fix that?
> 
> First time I heard about it was in the early 00's.

Remember when “netbooks” first came along? Initial Linux-based models like 
the Asus Eee 701 (I have one) were the first machines with SSDs and no 
hard drive. Microsoft had just introduced Vista, which was hopelessly 
inept on running on such small machines. So they postponed the death of 
XP, and together with Intel, they managed to put limits on the specs of 
these machines, so that they could continue running XP.

XP was hard on SSDs, because it required a swap file, and the continual 
writing to the SSD shortened its life.