Re: [NTLK] Emate memory upgrade

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 05:57:37 PDT


on 11/09/03 08:44, Anton Aylward at anton_at_the-wire.com wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 21:42, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>> on 10/09/03 20:40, Mark Montoya at markmontoya_at_mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>>> What is the advantage of having the 2 meg memory upgrade, besides extra
>>> internal memory for packages?
>>
>> If the memory allocation is similar to the MessagePad 2000-2100, which I
>> believe it is, then having more memory results in a larger portion set aside
>> for the system, resulting in more "heap" for the applications you use, which
>> means that you can work with larger and more complex documents.
>
> What happens when you delete an application?

The space on the flash storage is freed. There might be a little bit of
memory in the "heap" area that is recovered. That's pretty much it. The heap
is for the applications that are opened and running.

-Laurent.

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