Re: A85: Saving the 85

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Subject: Re: A85: Saving the 85
From: "Kaus" <kaus@cybrzn.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:56:43 -0500
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From: TGaArdvark@aol.com <TGaArdvark@aol.com>
To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: A85: Saving the 85

>
>> I remember reading that all 86 strings must be less than 14k
>> so I don't see why this wouldn't be possible.
>
>TI-86 strings and programs can be up to 65535 bytes.  Asm
>programs on the 86 are not strings though.  They are programs,
>just like basic.  But since _asm_exec_ram is only 10k, you
>can't run asm programs greater than 10k on the 86 right now.

But,,,,   you CAN use overlays if you know how.  Its pretty tricky tho.  You
have to transfer your overlay switching kernal code to the non-paged ram
area, and then load a new 16K ram page that contains another part of your
program.  With this system, your progs can be 10K  (asm_exec_ram spot)+5*16K
(are there 5 user var ram pages?  i cant remembre)  thats about 90K

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