A92: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: A92: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!
From: larry1492@juno.com (Larry G Currie)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:41:33 -0500
Cc: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
Reply-To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org

Here is a message from the hardware list.
~Larry C
Larry1492@juno.com
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From: "Joe Martis" <bungix@hotmail.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: TI-H: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 07:58:44 PST
Message-ID: <19971230155845.20839.qmail@hotmail.com>

I don't get it... Everyone is trying to make a hardware memory 
expansion. It cost money... Why not use a logical way to solve the 
problem. Compress! I figure that if the programmers (I really sould have 
written this to the asm list, but I'm not gonna subscribe) would make a 
shell (I'm talking about 82) that takes up most of the memory, and it's 
mostly blank space. Then the shell and some homemade link software would 
use a protocal to transfer new files into the compressed space. The 
shell would decompress the file it's going to run and put it into the 
compressed/free space, uncompressed. So the shell never lets anything 
out of it's 'space.' The leftover space would have to be enough to allow 
the calculator to function normally. I don't understand why no one has 
tried it (and publicly announced it.)

-Joe Martis

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