Re: TI-H: REAL Internal Memory Expansion


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Re: TI-H: REAL Internal Memory Expansion




Got that part.  how would you implement this on the calc?  just looking at
how i would use it as a programmer.


At 04:19 PM 10/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>Manages your memory.
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>>software mmu? explain.  what is an mmu.
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>>At 04:03 PM 10/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>>>>This sounds pretty awesome, but one thing:
>>>>The DRAMs will need to be dynamically refreshed, which will put one
hell of
>>>>a drain on the battery.
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>>>For 8MB it is 120mA.  Also, you only refresh the areas in ram which contain
>>>data.  That could mean the first 100k only gets refreshed...  Not too bad.
>>>20mA.
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>>>>Also, they wil need to be refreshed even when the calc is off.
>>>>Plus, this would still neeed to be implemented through the link port,
cause
>>>>the 32k ram internally is the limit of its capabilities for direct ram
>>access.
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>>>Nope.  Use a software MMU.  Do you think I'm doumb?  :P
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>>>>it would be like a e2 that requires constant large amounts of power, is a
>>>>whole lot bigger, and can be writen to as many times as you want.
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>>>I know exactly what it is.  If I didn't, I would ask.  Gee...  DRAM is sooo
>>>simple.
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>>>>At 02:37 PM 10/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>>>>>I've been looking at specs, and its possible to replace the internal SRAM
>>>>>with DRAM.  Then we could have 16MB accessable to our calcs at any time.
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>>>>>Not too hard either.
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