Re: A86: stuff

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Re: A86: stuff


well, with something like the upcoming Rascall, it helps a whole lot
w/people not messing up your calculator... It has an awesome feature to
which if you press on, you can abort any program that doesn't disable
interrupts... with this feature, my calculator almost never crashes.
							-Ahmed
At 02:20 AM 4/4/98 EST, you wrote:
>
>> maybe not just for one calculator, but how about if one other than
>> the user of the calculator picks it up he can leave a message for
>> the regular user?  the memory features would be great anyway.
>> maybe if there was a way to turn on/off the link port with a pass-
>> word, so that no one can get/send stuff without it.
>
>Everyone is looking for MORE SECURITY. Password this. User-
>name that. What happened to LESS? LESS MEANS MORE.
>I am not worried about people screwing up my calc. Like I said
>a few months ago, most of the people who play games on my
>calc panic and think they "did something" when the game exits
>to the shell. And those who are smart enough to work it know
>what not to do. What is all the worrying about? Frankly, I was
>a little disappointed with ASE 1.3. Don't get me wrong. It's a
>great program and was programmed very well by one of the TI
>world's best programmers. But I am still using 0.9 because it
>doesn't have all of the almost-useless features. ASE 1.3 is
>almost twice as large and it's more complicated to use. All I
>want is a neat (and ASE is the neatest available) display of
>all of the programs I have, mainly because it's impossible to
>find 98k of programs on a 6 character 5-entry display. I want
>to run programs without typing asm() all the time. ASE 1.3
>has those cool directories, but, with an 8-character 16 entry
>display, I don't need much more separation/organization. I
>don't need a security program that can be deactivated by
>removing a battery and I sure as hell don't want one that
>can't. (Several people have inadvertantly activated those
>and I don't ever remember the passwords because I don't
>use them, so I remove a battery.) Program deletion from
>the shell is dangerous and an unnecessary waste of
>memory. I forget some of the other features of ASE 1.3,
>but that's not the point. Something I miss (although it's
>99% impossible with the current ASE setup) is writeback.
>
>This is all said IMHO.
>
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