Re: Large Arrays In Sight

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From: LocklearLB
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1985 19:54

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>Nf-From: iuvax!franco    Dec 14 13:17:00 1985

>P.P.S.  Another peculiarity is that, by means of poke, one can find the
>highest byte address recognized by ST BASIC to be about 1014000 which is
>short of 1Meg by about 30000 bytes.  Did I get gipped or what?

No, you did not get gipped.  The highest 32K of the 520ST is used for
the screen display.  The end of the Transient Program Area (TPA) is
32K from the end of memory.  Apparently the BASIC interpreter doesn't
allow you to poke past that.

Barry Locklear
AT&T Information Systems Labs
Denver, CO
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Subject: Re: Large Arrays In Sight
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