Question about on-board RAM -- Do Apps Restrict RAM Used for Processing?

I'm not really a techie but I was wondering the following... if you load up on Apps, do you decrease the RAM available for the Blackberry to "think"? Like on a computer... if you run too many applications, you use up your available RAM and the computer runs slow... on the Blackberry, does loading many Apps have this same effect?

Originally Posted by mallinj

I'm not really a techie but I was wondering the following... if you load up on Apps, do you decrease the RAM available for the Blackberry to "think"? Like on a computer... if you run too many applications, you use up your available RAM and the computer runs slow... on the Blackberry, does loading many Apps have this same effect?

I don't know for sure but it would make sense if it did. Sometimes, I have troubles with themes working correctly so maybe they take a lot of operating room.