Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 40-Folder Bug Message-ID: <19309@cs.yale.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 15:13:40 GMT References: <2105@onion.reading.ac.uk> <1375@lzsc.ATT.COM> <1482@electro.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 22 In article <1482@electro.UUCP> ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes: > > >just a simple question: if the same foldrxxx.prg fixe both tos 1.0 and tos >1.4, why wasn't foldrxxx.prg put in the tos 1.4 roms at release time? makes >sense to me! > The so-called 40-folder "bug", which caused TOS to waste memory in its static memory pool and to misbehave when that pool was exhausted, *was* fixed in TOS 1.4. But the pool is still statically allocated, and you can still run out of TOS memory. foldrxxx.prg doesn't "fix" anything. It simply lets you increase the size of that pool. In TOS 1.0 this lessens the chance that the "bug" will bite. In TOS 1.4 it lessens the chance that TOS will run out of its private memory. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: | | Bitnet: | | UUCP: | ==================================================