Re: A83: Re: [no subject]
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Re: A83: Re: [no subject]
Perhaps it will, perhaps it wont. Perhaps TI
is using some nifty special low power CPU, or has found some other way to
conserve power. Who knows... Or perhaps it will eat up more battery
power (well, when running assembly programs anyhow). In any case we'll
have to wait and see, and I'm not sure what could/should be done about
this, or how this relates to slowing down programs...
-Dan Englender
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 1:05
PM
Subject: Re: A83: Re: [no subject]
What about battery
power? Wouldn't the faster speed directly correlate with
an increase
in battery use?
In a message dated 1/7/2001 1:04:00 PM Eastern
Standard Time, dan@calc.org
writes:
Of course not. First, the user can always change the speed
to however they
want it by using the tasker or options. They may
want it slower when
running older programs (fast tunnel on a 15 mhz CPU
could get ugly), and
run at regular or fast speeds for programs designed
with the faster calc in
mind. It's also trivial for the program
itself to override any settings
the user may have and run at normal
speed. The slow down would be only for
existing programs that
would run too fast on the new calculator.
P.S. Keep in
mind all this talk is potential. No one will know what needs
to be
done in terms of speed and other compatibility modifications until
the
calculator is actually out.
----
Jonah Cohen
<ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
http://jonah.ticalc.org
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