Re: LZ:83 ASM

Subject: Re: LZ:83 ASM
From: Rob Taylor <rtaylor@ticalc.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:40:42 +0100
In-Reply-To: <LZ:83 ASM>

> My idea was that TI could keep the rom entries stable without
> doing any kind of revision.  They'd just have to leave things
> where they are.  A better plan would be to have jump tables.
> 
> But you do have some good ideas if they could be convinced to
> do them.  My guess is that the 83 is an experiment.  If there's
> some development for it and it sells a few calculators for them,
> there will be more to come.  Of course I'm only guessing.
> 
> I like the break key idea and I like the idea of the stable
> starting address a lot.  The 83 has a fixed starting address
> and that makes life on it a lot easier.
> 
> I don't know much about the 85 yet even though I have one.  Isn't
> zshell always at the same address?  Couldn't it put the program
> at a fixed place before executing?  Or does it execute them in
> place?
>
well, in theory it could, but th problem is that we don't know enough 
about memory organiasion to do it. ON day when I have the time 
(probably never) i hope to look into doing this, but it could be a 
long while off.


Rob Taylor MAIL - mailto:rtaylor@ticalc.org 
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