>>>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
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>Hi Al,
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>On my machine: -1351876608
>Intel I7 2720 QM 8 Gig RAM Win 7 Professional 64-bit
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>Marshal

I got 2943090688 (same as Al). on Windows 7 64 bit.