Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Dallas-area, Texas
Posts: 82

In AppLauncher, only 1792KB of memory is listed as usable. I don't have any problem with that, except I bought a 2 meg Visor. RamHog says that 400K or so is the OS. But why is it in RAM? Is this portion upgradable?

Thanks.

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Vbq

Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 434

No. The operating system is not flash updateable. Sorry. I don't recall what the "missing" RAM is actually used for.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

Both the built-in applications and the OS maintain their own databases in RAM (remember, ROM cannot be written to). For example, the OS uses the Saved and Unsaved Preferences databases for maintaining "state" information, etc.

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MarkEagle - Ice is nice!

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 1571

Well my 8MB visor is actually 7.936 MB and my6GB computer is actually 5.59 GB. I don't think computers really have the size that is advertised.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

It has something to do with the way you multiply the bits..it was explained to me back before last christmas on this board ....i'll do a search and see if it comes up...

regardless, it's a calculation thing which results in less ...


found it:
http://discussion.visorcentral.com/...TML/001350.html


[This message has been edited by Hoser_in_USA (edited 08-11-2000).]