Originally posted by: sm8000
Let's clear up some of those old wives' tales....
Virtual Memory in Windows XP.
Good luck. People have been saying that VM is about hardware abstraction for years, and it seems like most people don't get it yet.
In the minds of those who do not yet get it:
virtual is the same as saying "not real"
And everybody knows that main memory is real memory and thusly a swap file is not real memory
Therefore swap file is memory that is not real memory, which makes it pretend memory. However computer programmers don't like to say "pretend", they say "virtual", because it makes them sound all futuristic and intellegent.
Therefore, using all their considurable computer knowledge, (which happens to be much more then any Microsoft programmer, BTW. Because MS is teh suck.), logicly swap file is virtual memory.
And therefore people who say a swap file is NOT virtual memory are arguing symantics and are obviously completely stuck up elitist geeky a-holes.
That and a witch floats, therefore she is made out of wood because wood floats. What else floats? A duck, so therefore a women is a witch if she weighs less then a duck.