Re: A86: Re: TI's ROM Sux

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: TI's ROM Sux
From: Bryan Rittmeyer <bryanr@flash.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 23:25:33 -0400
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Think about it, a modern modem can get that over thousands of
miles of cheap analog copper wire... 2.2k/sec is nothing for
a direct wire connection. Not to mention that the 8X link ports
randomly puke... the E2 would have been done weeks ago were it
not for the picky 86 link port. I don't know why, but it randomly
times out quite often using the same link code the ROM does...

Bryan

Samuel P Camp wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:35:45 -0400 Bryan Rittmeyer <bryanr@flash.net>
> writes:
> >
> >I sometimes think I do. :) I can still find tons of nitpicky
> >things about the TI calculators though... why would they waste
> >around 50 bytes of ROM space just to use jp over jr? Its
> >no great secret the TI link protocol is one of the slowest
> >things around... surely a few CPU ticks aren't gonna make any
> >noticable difference. The link port is limited electrically
> >to a relatively low bitrate.
> >
> >Bryan
> 
> Actually, with I2C you can get about 2.2kB/sec on a TI calc.  Or is this
> slow?
> 
> Sam
> 
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