Re: A89: Ram vs. Archive

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Ram vs. Archive
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:22:13 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org

In a message dated 10/7/99 13:37:37 Eastern Daylight Time, 
ticalcnews@yahoo.com writes:

> I don't see any reason why TI came up with such thing
>  as Archive memory.  It's basically just RAM.  If it
>  was something different than RAM then when you reset
>  your calculator, only RAM should have reset and
>  everything on archive memory should still be there. 
>  before i had 89, i thought archive memory was just
>  like harddrive on computer.  instead of say archive
>  memory, they could have just said "over 500k of RAM".
>  

Dude, it's NOT ram.  There is a physical difference--ram isn't just something 
that's cleared on a reset.  And the fact of the matter is the archive isn't 
cleared during a reset, it's just that the the vat is in ram, so it loses 
track of what's in the archive.  That's why archive utility can save data.

----
Jonah Cohen
<ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
http://linux.hypnotic.org/~jonah/

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