Re: A83: Re: What to use

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Subject: Re: A83: Re: What to use
From: Velex <velex@geocities.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 23:17:44 -0500
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David Phillips wrote:
> 
> For the user, it makes running programs much easier (especially for people
> who have to get help with stuff like turning it on and graphing equations).
> For the programmer, it supports things like libraries and relocation that
> makes your life much easier.  To be complete, I pasted the feature list from
> sos.txt.

sounds cool. thanks
 
> One thing I would like to know is what "program write back" means, if
> programs are executed in the same memory that they are stored in.  For
> example, on the 86 there is a special area of ram set aside just to run
> assembly programs, where programs are copied from whatever ram page they
> live at to the "_asm_exec_ram".  Program write back in this case would be
> copying the memory from the asm exec ram back to their respective ram page.
> On the 83, does this mean that the VAT is rearranged afterwards to the state
> it was in before?
> 
> (as a note, I would not consider complete program write back to be a good
> thing, because it does not allow extreme self modifying code/data)
> 
(snip sos.txt and quoted text)

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Re: A83: Re: What to use

From: "David Phillips" <electrum@tfs.net>