Re: A86: Terms

Re: A86: Terms

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• Subject: Re: A86: Terms
• From: linger richard nathan <rlinger@ews.uiuc.edu>
• Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 09:49:38 -0500 (CDT)
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On Mon, 4 May 1998, David Phillips wrote:

> >   - "TSR"    / I thought that a TSR was a program that [T]erminates and
> >                [S]tays [R]esident (in memory).  That doesn't seem to apply
> >                to a calculator, since everything is always in the memory.
> >                So what does this refer to in the context of TI-Assembly?
> Terminate and Stay Resident, meaning it hooks into an interrupt...the
> [sqrt] programs are built-in TSR's (if a program makes one of them).  We
> need a good FAQ about TSR on the calc.
> 

What do you mean by "hooking into an interrupt"?

Nathan

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