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- From: cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams)
- Subject: Re: Strange Memory Loss
- Message-ID: <cgw.722303141@sol>
- Originator: cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <2b0c4727.2224comp.sys.hp48@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> <2b0ceecc.2224.1comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> <cgw.722287417@sol> <1ejq7bINNgem@uwm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:45:41 GMT
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- In <1ejq7bINNgem@uwm.edu> pwaldoch@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Patrick Anthony Waldoch) writes:
- >The missing memory is accumulated over time. The HP48SX runs just like a
- >computer and the memory gets "fragmented" over time and use. The downloading/
- >saving of files and reloading should take care of freeing memory. (Its
- >worked for others). The HP48SX probibly does not have much of a memory
- >management unit. (sorry for the bad spelling above) Many of you have seen this
- >problem on computer harddrives, similar concept, execpt no one has a Norton
- >Util. for HP48SX.
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- why doesn't MEM work, then? MEM does garbage collection; is it so bad
- at gc, that it misses sometimes?
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