Re: Memory, where did it go??

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Subject: Re: Memory, where did it go??
From: Mislav Bilobrk <bili@FLY.CC.FER.HR>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:54:11 +0100
Comments: To: Todd Stanley <toddestan@AOL.COM>
In-Reply-To: <34C6780E.5623556D@aol.com>
Reply-To: Mislav Bilobrk <bili@FLY.CC.FER.HR>

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Todd Stanley wrote:
>Now the big question is where has all the memory on the 86 gone?  While
>the 85 has 32k of ram, with 28k user memory, the 86 has 128k ram but
>only 98k user memory.  What gives?  There is 30k missing!
>

I believe it's due to paging RAM. I think that RAM location where the VAT,
ranges, graph memory etc. are stored is not paged,  so ti86 has something
like 4 RAM pages of of about 25k + mentioned system RAM.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong!

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Re: Memory, where did it go??

From: Todd Stanley <toddestan@AOL.COM>

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