>>Have a brand new machine running Windows 7 64 Bit with 8 Gig or RAM.
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>>Have used the statement SYS(3050, 1, VAL(SYS(3050,1,0))/3) for allocating Memory for years without a problem. Also runs OK on Win 7 both 32 & 64 Bit machines with 4 Gig of Memory.
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>>Have read on Wik: i http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~sys3050 that the old 1/3 trick doesn't work on machines with more than 6 Gig or RAM.
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>>Also see that SYS(3050,1,0) returns a negative number on my 8 Gig machine.
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>It returns a positive number on my machine: 2943090688

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>Intel Core i5-750, 8GB RAM, Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
>VFP9 SP2 build 7423

Hi Al,

On my machine: -1351876608
Intel I7 2720 QM 8 Gig RAM Win 7 Professional 64-bit

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