[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
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[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
The exprience on the TI-86 would seem to suggest that compression is
feasible. For the TI-86, there are already (at least) two compression
programs: Lite86 II (which only decompresses on-calc) and Bloat (which
has an on-calc compressor as well). The decompression code is only a few
dozen bytes. Even programs that are only a few kilobytes in size can be
made substantially smaller if they made into auto-extracting compressed
programs. Since the program runs as normal, this is no problem for users.
Since the TI-83 Plus has more memory than a TI-86, programs for it should
be expected to (one way or another) end up larger than the TI-86
equivalents, and thus even more suitable for compression. Of course this
might not be the case for the regular TI-83, where not only do programs
have to be smaller, but you can't really find a lot of temporary storage
to use.
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