Re: QUESTIONS about the TI-86!?!
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Re: QUESTIONS about the TI-86!?!
There is no way there would be an assembler built-in to the calculator. It
would not be worth it, or even useful, because a buggy program would crash the
calculator. Also, it would be way too large to fit in the 128K ROM.
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From: Open discussion of TI Graphing Calculators On Behalf Of Eli Allen
Sent: Friday, June 20, 1997 7:59 PM
To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: QUESTIONS about the TI-86!?!
Jeff Tyrrill <Jeff_Tyrrill@MSN.COM> wrote in article
<UPMAIL13.199706202250150803@msn.com>...
> The ASCII to Hex conversion is NOT an assembler, like what you do with
Tasm.
> ASCII and Hex are just two ways of storing data in a computer.
This command (AsmComp) does not look like a ASCII to Hex converter. If you
look logically at this command it looks like its a shorter way of saying
Assembly (from Asm) Compiler (from Comp) This makes it seem like a user
can type Asm code into the calc, use this command, then have a compiled
program to use.
> >6.) On page 226 in the TI-86 Guidebook, It says something about the
Assembly
> >Language Compiler.
> >Here's all it says:
> >AsmComp(AsciiAssemblyPrgmName, - Compiles an assembly language
program
> >written in in ASCII and stores the hex version.
> >------------- What it is this supposed to mean? How do you write in
ASCII?
> > (Pardon my computer/calculator illiteracy)
>
> Could it be true? An in-calc compiler? Cool. looks like you can type
> in your program (ASCII is a character set. Here, it means "written in
> plain text"), and run AsmComp, and it'll compile it. Maybe that takes
> up the 30k of memory used.
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