Hi kathy,

The numbers you are talking about are the used and free amounts of the two 
major classes of memory in Windows CE devices - the object store and 
program memory.  The object store is what PulseData have decided to call 
the "KeySoft System Disk" in normal operation and the "Storage memory" in 
the memory display, and is the fundamental rootpoint of all filesystems 
and storage devices in your BrailleNote (flash disk, ATA/CF cards, etc).  
The program memory is strictly reserved for programs, the stack, the heap 
and other non-filesystem-related data.  The BrailleNote is not using 
virtual memory, so the entire memory representation is physical RAM 
modules that are inside your BrailleNote.  The memory is divided, by 
PulseData, in a half-and-half configuration, which they explain is 
important to your upgrade process.  This can be changed but not without 
use of the Windows CE control panel applet (which is inaccessible to you) 
or another program such as memdiv which I wrote for the purpose.  If you 
make such a change, you should know that PulseData will not approve of it 
and will not cover you under warranty if any failure or damage results 
from it (currently my BrailleNote is operating with 4MB program memory and 
12MB storage, but I will change this back before upgrading).

For most purposes, you need not concern yourself with the information 
displayed, because it is not especially revealing for normal operation.  
As you say, it is more important and useful to monitor specific 
filesystems and drives using the directory list.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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