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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Mysterious partial loss of 48SX memory
Message-ID: <14080@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 12:21:05 GMT
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Reply-To: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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|> Something very strange just happened to my 48.  I was using a program that
|> works with a 7K byte object (a list of names and addresses).  At the time, I
|> had about 10K bytes free, enough to store another copy of the object.  At
one
|> point, I got an "Insufficient Memory" error.  On checking, I had only 3K of
|> free memory! 

The calculator may have extra copies of objects in various circumstances --
stored in the "last stack" area, et cetera.  Next time something like the above
happens, try a system reset (On/C) and then MEM.


				-- edp