Re: NTLK How much memory is supposed to show up on the MP2100?

From: paul oberman (pauloberman@flashcom.net)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 16:36:34 CDT


what is the 717260 &710031??

Paul Guyot wrote:

> >I have a non-upgraded 2000. I am running the dashboard upgrade,
> >that has a memory heap indicator. my memory heap is never above
> >80k. Is that what should be available? What will be
> >available with the additional 3 megs?
> >
> >I think that there is confusion between memory and storage in these posts.
>
> I am not sure I confused.
> With additional 3 megs you'll have up to 400 KB or something like
> that. Personally I have 160 KB because I have DictMgr and other heap
> hungry softwares. Victor has 330 KB as I was able to see few minutes
> ago. He probably use Heap Saver or another software that does the
> same job.
>
> Anyway, this is the NS Heap. Indeed (oh, I just thought now: I was in
> the bowels of the Flash driver, one could increase the cache size,
> umm), the memory is shared among fixed size heaps plus a heap which
> is not allocated (new heaps are substracted from it).
>
> The 717260 & 710031 allocates a larger heap for NewtonScript if 4
> megs of DRAM are found. But NewtonScript doesn't get 100 % of the
> memory. There are plenty of other things in the RAM. For example, the
> Newton Internet Enabler uses a lot of it. Each view uses part of the
> memory for its graphical representation, outside the NewtonScript
> heap. Drivers and in fact all C++ code are loaded in the System Heap
> or their own heap.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
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