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    How much RAM is left? —Steven J. Morris
   (...) I believe that. 32k of RAM is a luxury for forth. That's another thing people don't generally understand about forth, they way it effectively compresses runtime software. I've heard of ram reductions of a factor of 5-10 for forth when compared (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        RE: How much RAM is left? —Ralph Hempel
     (...) Nope, the memory is allocated linearly from the end of the image. The current image size is 12 or 13K. New dictionary entries and ALLOTed memory are interspersed as they occur. NOTE WELL that there is a subtle bug in the RCX ROM routines when (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        Re: How much RAM is left? —Ernst de Ridder
   (...) Pfff. As if that could possibly be important. If it isn't an object-oriented client-server architecture in Java++, it can't be serious :-) (...) If I read the source correctly, memory is allocated sequentially, and in my image I've got SOURCE (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
 

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