A92: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!
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A92: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!
I am making a LZW library for TI92. The extract function is now OK. I finish the compress function, but without dynamic allocation. But I have not a lot of time. So this library will maybe release on frebrury or march 1998.
Bye
Benoit SCHERRER
p.c.scherrer@wanadoo.fr
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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