Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site wlbr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!nsc!voder!wlbr!steve From: steve@wlbr.UUCP (Steve Childress) Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro.68k Subject: OS9 Things Message-ID: <367@wlbr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 14:51:59 EDT Article-I.D.: wlbr.367 Posted: Tue Sep 24 14:51:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 07:02:49 EDT Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 36 Keywords: OS9 CoCo Xref: watmath net.micro.6809:508 net.micro.68k:1144 For the fellow trying to run a large program on a CoCo ... I suggest that: 1) Put a "LOAD LOAD" in your startup file... this is probably why you could load then run. 2) When you want to run a large program, use the command: ex pathname because this discards the current shell before running the program ... this releases about 4 pages of memory. 3) Be aware that memory fragmentation occurs in OS9 (8-bit)... Do a "MFREE" just after booting OS9 and again after running several different programs. If you see several small (< 3) regions of memory, you have a fragmentation situation. This can be cleared by rebooting. On the issue of why OS9 was not selected by Commodore or Atari ... In a posting done a couple of weeks ago, I speculated that the manufacturers elected to do the O/S's in-house to achieve lower recurring costs. Does anyone else have a speculation? HEY MICROWARE!!! Where the *#@!$#$@ are your news releases, user-feedback solicitations, COMPUSERVE-relays, etc? There could be a goodly-sized group of people here on USENET (and possibly ARPANET). Regards, Steve Childress Eaton IMS R&D Group MS 43 31717 La Tienda Drive Westlake Village, CA 91360 (818) 889-2211 X2148 {trwrb, scgvaxd, ihnp4, voder, vortex} !wlbr!steve or ...wlbr!wlbreng1!steve