So, what you're saying is that none of the additional
8MB of memory on the 12MB Newton is used for Heap? So,
the Heap still stays at 4MB and the rest is just
storage?
Then it really isn't much use then...What we need is a
method of increasing Heap. I personally wouldn't mind
a 6MB heap. That would make things so much smoother!
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
subdomain)
--- Sealie Computing <bunnyboy_at_sealiecomputing.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002, at 19:04 US/Pacific, John
> M. Powell wrote:
> >
> >> Here's what we CAN do
> >> 1) At least one stock Newt exists with 11 (or 12)
> MB of internal RAM
> >> a) let's figure out how this was made
> >> b) have someone produce the memory board
> >> c) extract, copy and disseminate whatever
> system patch let
> >> it recognize the additional RAM
> >
> > OH YEAH! I've actually wondered why we haven't
> already done that.
> > Fear of destroying the original? With Paul's ATA
> driver, we might
> > need the extra RAM. All this extra storage we
> have... more programs,
> > web surfing, etc. Yep. We need the extra RAM.
> >
>
> The additional memory is not RAM for running
> programs, it is Flash RAM
> for storage. Upgrading from the 4MB built in to the
> 12MB of the
> developer Newton is pretty much the same as putting
> an 8MB Flash card
> in a slot. I already figured out all the info on
> the ROM board to
> build a new one with more Flash RAM, but the cost is
> just too high.
> Individual flash chips are more expensive than Flash
> cards, and PCBs
> are expensive (just as PCBman). The 4MB RAM is a
> physical limitation
> of the motherboard (and possibly chipset) which may
> be why someone
> hasn't already gone past it.
>
>
> Brian Parker
=====
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
- Mr. Weasley - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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