Re: LZ: get more ram?
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> Do you think there is any way to add ram to the ti-85 via the link port.
> Possibly someone could develop plans for an external ram source that plugs
> into the link port. It might take a lot of tricky asm programming to get
> the ti to read from the port. If it was possible it could add a whole new
> realm of possibilities to ti programming.
Here is the problem with having external ram:
1.You have to have a power support for the ram at all times
2.most ram chips I have seen have many, many pins, making it hard for
you write to them properly with only one or two output paths.
3. how will the RAM know how and when to send info to the TI?? You cant
just stimulate ram to give you what you want...(women are a different
story :)
4. you need the link port to recieve info from you computer, if you want
extra ram, you can still only only get chunks of 32k at a time, forcing
you to break up a 100k program, or whatever, into several chunks.
5. there are plenty of other reasons that I can't think of right now...
With all due respect, these are just calculaters, don't get dillusions
about what they can, or even need to do.
-Chris
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