A86: new shell idea


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A86: new shell idea




I have a new idea for a shell.

With all this talk of a calc network in order to save memory all asm progs 
could be compressed on the computer. Then the shell would decopress the prog 
to asm_exec_ram when the prog is ran. Then to save high scores and such the 
prog would be compressed and recopied to the vat That way more progs could 
fit on the calc.Most progs will need a little modification to work, just the 
saving routines. If someone tries to run a compressed prog with "Asm(" they 
will simply get and invaled error message

So far the only problem i see that defender uses another prog for data while 
most others use strings.So defenders support prog would need to be 
decompressed also

On a side note what happens to asm_exec_ram after a prog is ran? Say i run a 
large prog that fills the area, then i run a small prog (say only 100 bytes) 
what would be in the area of (asm_exec_ram+200)??  Would it be some random 
number or would it be empty


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