Re: Re-connecting

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Terry Loveall wrote:

> The Explorer wannabe file manager has no cognate in colorForth so we will just
> pass on that for now. BTW Just how does one manage downloadable content, web
> pages, cache and hundreds of megabytes of email on colorForth?
>

One doesn't at present. If I extrapolate my experience with colorForth, I 
believe all Chuck's data (his chip designs, all colorForth code), fits 
within that first megabyte of space, so there is a 1:1 correspondence 
between the state of floppy and the first megabyte of memory. Sitting on 
the edge of the first megabyte are the stacks and floppy buffer on the 
interior and the dictionary space on the exterior. So actually Chuck uses 
less than megabyte, given my experience, probably a lot less.

I think it is a reasonable assumtion, that all essential programs can 
fit in a relatively small finite ammount of space. Data is another story, 
emails individually are pretty small, when you have thousands this adds up 
to megabytes easily. And there is really no need to have every email in 
memory, memory can be better used at present. If you don't have the data 
in memory, that means it is on a disk or some permanent storage, and this 
implies some method of organization, perhaps with an indexing scheme for 
fast access.

Mark