Re: A89: TCML Proposal

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Subject: Re: A89: TCML Proposal
From: Nathan Mueller <nlmueller@students.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:38:19 -0600
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>I don't agree with this. "Not enough processor power"?? Parsing a textfile
>takes no time whatsoever, even on a TI-8x calc with a Z80. The speed problem
>might be the output of text if you want it in different sizes, but I seriously
>doubt that as well. TCML might take less memory though - that's about all.

I don't doubt the 89's ability to parse large text files, but HTML is a
very complex language.  Imagine how many instructions you would need to
look at each character if you were displaying an HTML file.  With my TCML
it would take less then five instructions _per_line_.  Weather or not the
89 can handle HTML, TCML will be much faster and easier.  You should note
that TCML is designed to support TCML/HTML browsers with the <TCML> tag.  I
aggree that it would be nice to view HTML docs, but I'm not willing to
write that browser.

	--Nate

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