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Old 09-05-2009, 05:41 PM   #546
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Originally Posted by Tuna View Post
Internal flash is not the same as memory that can be used to run software (RAM).

The PRS-505 only has 64Mb of ram to run software in - about half of that will be used by operating system, and another 10 or so by the standard user interface. Factor in loading the book into memory, and you've got very little left for the renderer.

10's of megabytes IS too big for embedded systems, which is what e-readers are.
The TeX program is not so big. It is all the data files that are not read into RAM at the same time that takes the space and they just need to be stored someplace.

And the claim I objected to was that the firmware size was to small to store the files needed to run LaTeX. RAM size have not been mentioned before.
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