On Sun, 23 Jul 1995 20:54:26 +0100 (BST), Tim Wells said: > A thousand curses on all those people who poke their code straight into > the system heap on the SAM.
This irks me as well, though I have never used MBasic. Naturally the utilities that I have written all use the documented interface to the system heap, and reserve utility slots in high memory as described by the technical manual. However, some programs that shall remain nameless just stuff their code in there, making sure that the machine crashes at the earliest opportunity. What's more, they don't tell anyone that the stuff is in there so it doesn't matter which order you load the blasted things in. Unless, that is, you load the offending utility first and manually inspect the heap to see how much it used before poking the appropriate system variable. imc
