Well...
Logical@aol.com
XXX, 1 Dec 1995 19:03:48 -0400 (EDT)
<<Thanks for the info on GEOS fonts. And your explanation of RAM usage clarifies everything (but I would still rather see another 250K allocated for system storage rather than immediate RAM usage). The screen samples in the book show only the amount of RAM available for system storage, which comes out of the box around 350K. When I called HP support, I spoke to a helpful person who has one himself, and it was he who said the OS resides in RAM, although I knew I had read that it resides in ROM. He didn't know anything about the 512K RAM that is free for immediate use and stated that his unit only had about 350K of RAM available too - so I reached the wrong guy. And the manual lists nothing under "storage", "RAM", or "memory" that explains this. The help screen simply states that the memory figure on the main setup screen (which is the storage RAM figure) "shows how much memory is available to your Omnigo 100" and to "use a RAM card or a personal computer to store the bulk of your dat
a and put only a portion of it on the Omnigo"... >>
Well, the OmniGo uses GEOS 2.1, the primary enhancement of GEOS 2.1 over 2.0 is the fact that it can run itself, and ROM based apps straight out of ROM... :) The reason it doesn't mention immediate RAM and such is because theoretically it should never be an issue. You should have plenty for all purposes, given the applications included... Only storage should ever be an issue... However, as third party software comes out, immediate RAM may become an issue, or it may not...
-L