Subj : Learned something new to
To   : Ed Vance
From : Barry Martin
Date : Tue Jul 23 2024 07:50:00


Hi Ed!

 > I'm pretty much only using (Virtual) XP for the BBS stuff and haven't
 > fiddled around in ages.  At the Command Promot tyoe 'mem' and see if any
 > hints there.

 > Mine comes out really strangely:

 >     655360 bytes total conventional memory
 >     655360 bytes available to MS-DOS
 >     634048 largest executable program size

 >    1048576 bytes total contiguous extended memory
 >          0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
 >     941056 bytes available XMS memory
 >            MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area
 >
 > I'm thinking maybe the reason you can't open your 40th window is there
 > is not you're out of system memory but rather you're out of memory for
 > whatever application governs the files.

-> That's good! :)
   
(One of our quote-back devices is not quite right; I added the hyphen to
your reply.)
            
Dawned on me I think Ky meant 'stacks' when he typed 'heaps' in his 
reply to me but not qute sure.  Check both out.  'Stack' is an area of
memory; 'heap' is one or more areas of memory from which storage is
obtained on an as-needed basis and returned when no longer needed.

So based on that it seems one should not run out of heaps as they are 
dynamic whereas stacks are limited and always the same size no matter 
the content.  ...Seems like one could adjust the size of the stack, so
if made smaller could have more.  ...Limitation of 100% of the RAM 
still, but can make smaller partitions.




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