Date   : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:05:09 GMT
From   : c.r.dewhurst@... (Christopher)
Subject: OSHWM / HIMEM question

On 7 Jan 2009, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote...

> Hi all,
> 
> Am I correct in asuming that OSHWM and HIMEM will only ever be on a page 
> boundry ? If this is the case then the amount of free memory will always 
> be an exact number of pages which will make things simpler for me.

Yes, OSWHM/HIMEM are always mutiples of PAGEs (&100)

However, not sure that the amount of free memory will be
a multiple of &100 necessarily. If you are programming in
Basic, the size of the program (TOP-PAGE) can be any
number of bytes, I think?

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> 
> Cheers
> 
> Phill.
>