Re: A86: Re: TI's ROM Sux
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Re: A86: Re: TI's ROM Sux
Bryan Rittmeyer wrote:
> I'm sorry about the tone of my past e-mails.. I'm not trying
> to complain so much as I am trying to figure out why they
> chose to handle calculator to calculator communications the
> way they did. And, for the record, I talked to Mel Tsai on
> IRC last night and he seemed pretty certain that jp and jr
> execute in the same amount of time.
Without conditions, jp executes in 10 t-states, jr in 12: not a big
difference. jp (hl), on the other hand, executes in 4 t-states.
> Whatever the case, I
> don't see how dumping the ROM of my own calculator and
> disassembling it is a felony. I bought the calculator,
> and the ROM is part of that calculator...
>
> I agree that I've been crying like a baby, and I'm sorry
> about the tone of my past posts. I'm just getting pretty
> annoyed with the TI link port. Whatever they did on the 92
> works a lot better than the code on the 8X... :-\
>
> TGaArdvark@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Dude, stop complaining about TI's ROM. My opinion is that
> > you don't have a right to complain unless you already wrote
> > a better one. And I strongly doubt anyone here could claim
> > that. If pointing out bugs has any affect on our job (asm
> > programming), then saying it is justified. But complaining
> > about jp/jr (especially when TI already explained why they did
> > it) is definitely not right. How would you feel if everyone picked
> > on your code like that? Anyway, last time I checked, it was a
> > felony (in the US) to even know whether they used jp or jr.
>
> --
> Bryan Rittmeyer
> mailto:bryanr@flash.net
> http://www.bridges.edu/horizon/
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