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- From: derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter De Rijk)
- Subject: Re: Monty Pythons most used sentence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.092318.11988@reks.uia.ac.be>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:23:18 GMT
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- Helmut Springer (zrzs0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
- : "And now to something completely different"
- :
- : In past there were a few questions about PD/shareware/freeware modula2 compiler.
- : I heard there is (was) a port of m2c (translator modula to c) to the
- : archimedes/RISCOS, but it doesn't run proper (crunshing memory sometimes or
- : something like this ...)
- : I also heard also, there is (was) a port of gnu-emacs, also with problems.
- : On the one hand, I understand, that porters don't want to be blamed for
- : such bugs, but if a package, which can be ported to other hosts without
- : problems and compile without warnings, we should blame either
- : the library, the compiler or the prinziples of the system (most that ...).
-
- I am working on a specialist editor. It is written in fairly standard C
- (about 240K code) and runs on VMS and ULTRIX. I ported it to the Archimedes
- in one day! I am still working on a proper version for MSDOS (spit!)
-
- : The tragic part of not publicing not perfect
- : ported PD/shareware/freeware programs is, that other people would real need
- : this programs (also if they have to try some things twice before they run ...)
- :
- : "And now to something completely different"
- :
- : Has someone build a module with a "save, easy useable, not crunshing"
- : method to request memory (for RISCOS 2.00)?
- : If you request memory with OS_Module, the memory can't given back, if a
- : other module gets loaded.
- : If you request memory with WIMP_SlotSize, you may run into programs which
- : sits already in the memory (cause of BBC 6502 compatibility ?) and twice
- : this method has no garbage collection ...
- : It seams, that good old MSDOS v. 2.00 has better memory allocation routines
- : than this one on the archimedes 8-(
-
- AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
- FLAME ON
- If there is someting about MSDOS that I find really, totally, utterly
- disgusting its memory allocation. Just try to get some thing more than blocks
- of 64K, or try to use more than 1M. Enter the fascinating world of segmented
- memory architecture, EMS, XMS and DOS extenders. Even the most hardened
- MSDOS addicts I know admit that memory handling on a PC is a pain in the neck.
- FLAME OFF
- (Sorry for this, I am currently having problems with MSDOS memory management.)
-
- I use WIMP_Slotsize in a little BASIC program. I've never had prblems with it.
- Are you sure this can run into other programs memory (I doubt it).
- Try to take a look at the flexalloc system. Maybe that's what you need. (I
- havent used this myself yet.)
-
- Peter
-