Re: LF: A java interpreter for the TI...
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> It would have to be feasible to even approach being interesting. A java
> virtual machine (even a simplified one) would require large amounts of
> additional RAM to operate.
>
You're probably wright, althought even Sun reports that a low memory
interpreter is possible. Maybe not as low as the amount we find
in a TI, even an extended one. Anyway, I now remember an important
feature of Java that would be pretty difficult to implement:
multithreading. Especially because (as far as I know) the 92 lacks an
internal clock. Besides the 68k isn't a good way of
multithreading.
Of course, I could easily be wrong.
> A more feasible project would be something like SCHIP for the HP 48. SCHIP
> and its derivatives are basically an interpreter for a simplified machine
> language that's stored tokenized in a string. It is designed to write games
> and has graphics and sprite routines built into the interpreter.
>
Well, that would be quite interesting, especially because the
programs could probably be easily exchanged with the HP (we could
finally see which one is the better :). But that also depends on the
amount of memory that it would take (I sincerely don't know how much
it would be).
Regards,
Nuno Costa
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