On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:22:52PM -0600, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> Because on the pilot, even when there is 2, 4 or even 32 MB of RAM, you
> can't get at it in continuous blocks.  I think only in 32K blocks.  (IIRC)
> You *could* do a full-scale Smalltalk on a Palm, but you'd be doing a lot
> more than a port of Squeak, you'd have to write a new VM to account for
> the way PalmOS works.

Since PalmOS 3.5 you may use FtrPtrNew/FtrPtrFree to allocate blocks over 64K.
The only inconvenient is that access is a bit slower and that you have to
use DmWrite.

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