Re: A89: Suggestion: A simple C compiler
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Re: A89: Suggestion: A simple C compiler
The flashrom chip that is in the 89 has the feature that you can write protect
certain blocks.. therefore you dont need any extra rom chips.. everything is
stored in the same chip.
//Olle
Daniel7073@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/18/1998 5:19:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> ZeromusMog@aol.com writes:
>
> > I've read a bunch of stuff on that, and there is a basic link routine
> > somewhere, probably in the ROM. Therefore, it is always possible to recover
> > from crashing the OS. TI cannot really provide this ROM upgrade feature
> > without being willing to accept the fact that someone can come right along
> > and
> > make a new OS for the calculator. It would be like IBM getting upset
> because
> > someone installed Linux on their computer instead of IBM DOS 7.0. However,
> > TI
> > does have the right to get upset- emotionally and legally- if the ROM that
> > they wrote was hacked. If someone ambitious (Jimmy Mardell?) would be
> > interested in talking to someone from TI (is Pat on this list?) about
> > allowing
> > an extremely stable version of (z)Tetris to be put in the ROM...
>
> right. Another reason the link routine would have to be in permanent ROM is
> that when uploading TI's new OS version, an error could occur.
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