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Re:Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering by InclinedPlane on Saturday February 20, 2010 @03:20PM (#1139409)
He could read the available documentation and literature. This is not some grand secret. This feature has been around in Vista for years, there's no excuse for this level of ignorance. It's just laziness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Windo...

Better yet, the same article circa Feb. 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technical_features...

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Re:Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering by jrockway on Saturday February 20, 2010 @06:51PM (#1139743)
Documentation is never accurate. No source code, no knowing-for-sure.
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Re:Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering by Locke1689 on Saturday February 20, 2010 @07:19PM (#1139791)
Any operating system developer who knows anything about paging would know exactly what was going on. Especially since you can immediately tell using the Windows task manager that it was doing caching.
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