[SD] Re: Venus on all Z80 Ti's
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[SD] Re: Venus on all Z80 Ti's
> From: Aaron <acurti1@umbc.edu>
>
> On Tuesday, October 02, 2001, Tijl wrote:
>
> > Venus moves all program data, including the size bytes, to the start of
> > usermem. It updates all bytes in the VAT too. Actually Venus changes the
> > order in which variables are stored in usermem, moving the executed
> > program to the start. A consequence of this is that when a system error
> > occures, no dirty ram is left behind. Installing an error handler to clean
> > up ram is not necessary, because there is nothing to clean up.
> > It also allows for easy program write back, easy accessing TIOS variables,
> > easy memory management,...
> Doesn't Rigel on the 85 do this also?
Could be, but I didn't know that while developing Venus.
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