HP 200 LX 2MB and Borland Turbo C 2.01

[MattiMark]

Questions have been asked about the HP 95/100/200LX family earlier on, so here we go.

I have finallly managed to install Turbo C on my HP 200 LX. And it works. Well, almost, since the memory runs out when truing to compile the tiniest little program.

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("Hello HP 200LX!");
return 0;
}

The compiler acceppted the code but ran out of RAM. I just had some 20KB free RAM indicated initially but things went sour at some 10KB indicated. (The compiler shows the RAM status during compilation.)
I tried these variants in order to get it running.
A. TC via File Manager.
B. TC from DOS 5.0 prompt.
C. TCC as A above.
D. TCC as B above.

All variants gave the same result. I fiddeled with the RAM setup, and was able to run from DOS prompt when the DOS portion of system RAM was about 400 KB.

My two questions are:
1. Have anyone ever gotten to the point of compiling "anything" with the Turbo C on a HP 200 LX?
2. If so, I would much appreciate a clue or perhaps an answer to my little mystery.

Regards,
Matti Sweden