RE: GEMDOS from VBL

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:45:18 +0200, Sven Karlsson wrote:

SK>MiNT is not fully reentrant.

OK, noted.

SK>MiNT does not really have TSRs.

But MiNT does know TSR and can display it in process list.

SK>When running under MiNT your "TSR" should use ALRM signals
...
SK>No!  Program shouls not fiddle with the memory handling at all! The
SK>memory is internally handled differently in MiNT,MagiC, and TOS.

I didn't say I want to fiddle with memory handling - I would just like
to know where the free memory blocks are. A system utility displaying
those memory holes would be interesting, don't you agree?

Besides, the GEMDOS method of getting sum of free RAM takes ages - about
10 miliseconds on 16 MHz Falcon, so it would be more than 20 ms on a ST.
This is too long. Having the memory list I would be able to go through
and sum it within several microseconds.

Petr
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