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RE: A92: FLASH technology, ti92+, and 89
As a future addition, since the ROM is upgradable, it would be great to
see "c" support as an alternative to TI-BASIC or assembly.
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>From: sprestridge@ti.com[SMTP:sprestridge@ti.com]
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>Sent: Friday, March 13, 1998 12:30 PM
>To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: A92: FLASH technology, ti92+, and 89
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>Well, in short, FLASH is a new type of ROM that is electronically
>erasable and programmable. It goes in sectors, not by pins. The
>FLASH on board the 92+ and 89 has 2 MB. Not all of that is TI's
>code, because we are making room for things to come (I don't think
>I can get more specific than that at this point). The sectors are
>selected in 64 kB chunks, so that can give us the 384 kB. You
>shouldn't be able to erase all the program code by an errant
>assembly instruction - I've been working hard to make sure of that!!
>As far as ASM support goes, you will have the same support as the
>86 and 92+. I think that we will even provide a C header file to help
>you write your programs. We are trying to piece together ASAP
>documentation as we speak, so I will know more about it in the
>coming weeks. I hope that this helps.
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>Shawn A. Prestridge
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