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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
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Subject: Re: 1040 memory usage
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 11:43:42 EST
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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