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Article #23768Re: 1040 memory usage
From: braner
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 16:43
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 16:43
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[] TOS/GEM do allocate various buffers in RAM. To start with, there's the 32K video RAM. Then there's a certain amount at low RAM (I think about 64K, but I forget) (The screen is at the very high end of RAM). 900K sounds just fine. I rarely have problems with lack of RAM. If you cannot allocate a 32K buffer from the ONLY running program there is some other problem: Your RAMdisk is wacky, or some program you ran before has fragmented RAM. For example: some programs install themselves in RAM and stay resident. Suppose you run a CLI which takes up 50K, then invoke such a stay-resident thing from the CLI. It installs ABOVE the CLI, and stays there even after you quit from the CLI to the desktop! Next time you invoke a big program, it has no choice but to run from above the resident utility! Moral: install all your resident utilities from the auto folder! - Moshe Braner
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!braner From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 1040 memory usage Message-ID: <1695@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 11:43:42 EST Article-I.D.: batcompu.1695 Posted: Wed Dec 3 11:43:42 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Dec-86 04:46:28 EST References: <743@husc6.UUCP> Reply-To: braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 17