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From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Virtual Memory
Message-ID: <2845@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 89 23:21:35 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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I'd like to find out if the Apple Laserwriter Plus we have has the
max. amount of memory that it can have, or if it would be possible
to add more memory.

I ran the "Doctor Laser" program posted a while ago (my thanks to the
person(s) who developed and posted it) and it reported

	Max. available bytes 	= 239316
	Bytes currently in use	= 86576
	Level of Save Nesting	= 2

	blimit = 12500	cmax = 1700 csize = 1480 mmax = 136
	msize = 84 bmax = 136064 bsize = 129060

Based on the above, can someone tell me the answer to my question  (also,
can someone interpret these numbers for me?)

On a related subject, how does a postscript program generally ensure that
all memory used is released when it ends ?  i.e. after doing the printing,
the printer should be left in the same state as before.

Thanks

Venu P. Gopal
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