RE: LZ: optimizing zshell programs for turbo calcs

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RE: LZ: optimizing zshell programs for turbo calcs

The only person who I have met who tried (success or fail) to turbo their 
calculator broke it and couldn't figure out why. It is not failproof or 
foolproof.
--MZB


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From: 	owner-list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org on behalf of becker
Sent: 	Saturday, September 02, 1995 1:25 PM
To: 	list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: 	Re: LZ: optimizing zshell programs for turbo calcs


> But then you lock out people who were cautious and decided not to risk
> their $1xx peice of equipment on an iffy at best hardware hack.
> 
> dreamer
IFFY???  ARE YOU NUTS?? Prior to turboing my calculater I had absolutely
_NO 
EXPERIENCE_ working with small electronics.  Keith L. Miller's
instructions 
are very detailed, and nearly risk-free if you're not a total moron.  I 
guess it's no fun to have a calculator that can give you a faster
computation
during a test and in turn more time to work on it, huh?  Turboing is
legitimate
and so is optimizing zshell programs for it.  Modifying a program to run
the 
same speed all the time is not going to slow it down on a non-turbo
calculator.
Even if it does, both versions can be released separately, with a
_MINIMAL_
amount of extra work on the turbo version.  Somebody mentioned something
about
using the interrupts, because they run the same speed on a turbo calc. I
don't
know if this is true, but I know there is an efficient way of making
this
all possible.


-Chris