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  1. From: akcs.levenson@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (william j. levenson)
  2. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:40:02 GMT
  3. Subject: Re: Strange Memory Loss
  4. Message-ID: <2b111543.2235.1comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com>
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  6. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
  7. References: <921121210856.2383470b@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU>
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  10. I *know* MEM does garbage collection.  How else could it tell you how
  11. much free memory you have?  Are you sure that when you did your
  12. experiment with the long variable 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa', that you didn't
  13. forget about last argument, last stack, last command line, etc.  If you
  14. didn't turn these off completely, you probably changed that least the
  15. last command function.  Remember that last command save the last *4*
  16. command lines that you entered.  I believe that if you account for all
  17. these hiding places for memory, that you will find that MEM does garbage
  18. collection.
  19.  
  20. Bill Levenson
  21.