* Frank Adam writes to Paul Wankadia, on Tuesday October 29 1996
   at 10:28:

 PW>> E.g. I have programmed in Rowan Crowe's MoonRock -- I can make my
 PW>> programs only use (say) 35Kb.  Yet, with Turbo C++ v3.0, ALL
 PW>> programs take 66Kb (SMALL model), even if I'm not using all of
 PW>> it...  How can I
 FA> I haven't seen it, but perhaps you're trying to make MoonPebble out of
 FA>  MoonRock ? Why not ask Rowan about it ?:-)

He means that with MoonRock you can specify the maximum size of the data
segment, it can be 500 bytes if you want. As an example, a program which
executes "D:\DOS\MEM.EXE" with the parameter "/M:EXEC"
produces the following:

EXEC is using the following memory:

  Segment  Region        Size        Type
  -------  ------  ----------------  --------
   00E29                416    (0K)                  ; environment
   00E43              1,328    (1K)                  ; code+stack
   00E96                160    (0K)                  ; data segment
                   ----------------
  Total Size:         1,904    (2K)

Note no swapping of any kind has been done here. :) exec.com is 774 bytes.

ftp://ftp.ozramp.net.au/pub/moonrock/moon017.zip

Freeware BASICish programming language and compiler, see
http://www.aussie.net/~rowan/moonrock.html for more waffling which would be
rather more off topic here than I already am.

Cheers.

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