[NTLK] Newton vs. E5830 Blog Up

[Jeremy O'Brien]

Wait, so my messagepad 2000 has 1MB of heap, yet Avi's Backdrop never
reports more than 130k free. Does the OS really use 800-900k of heap?
That seems excessive...

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:26:53AM -0500, Tony Douglas wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> 
> I've just started using Backdrop Plus from Stand Alone as my backdrop, just for a wee change from Avi's Backdrop. Quite liking the additional buttons for applications actually. I've also got Dashboard running, which is great for the gesture input to launch apps too. 
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> The number in the middle at the top is indeed free heap; it's a MessagePad 2000U, so it has 4Mb of memory to play with. I freeze lots of packages that aren't in regular use, and use HeapSaver as well - HeapSaver is claiming to be saving 54.22k of heap at the moment, which is always handy :)
> 
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> - Tony
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j at gmail.com>
> To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
> Sent: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 6:10 am
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newton vs. E5830 Blog Up
> 
> 
> Good god man. What are you running as your backdrop? It looks crazy. Also,
> is that number at the top your free heap? If it is, how do you have so much?
> 
> 
> Curious,
> Jeremy
> 
> On Feb 7, 2010 12:57 AM, "Tony Douglas" <tonyisyourpal at netscape.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> In case anyone is interested in the very gory details, the steps I ran
> through to get my Newton talking to my Huawei E5830 are now up on my blog at
> http://tonyisyourpal.blogspot.com. There are probably loads of horrible
> typos and bits where I've forgotten to say 'hit Save here' but hopefully
> it'll be of use to someone. Be warned though, it's mostly about getting
> wireless connections to work rather than anything terribly special about
> mobile broadband - that bit, thankfully, just worked !
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> - Tony
> 
> 
> PS. There will be more to come shortly, including why I've abandoned the 2Gb
> compact flash card and a plea for help with MailV !
> 
> 
> PPS. But not right now - it's time for bed (said Zebedee ... boooiiinnggggg
> ...)
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