Re: LZ:83 ASM

Subject: Re: LZ:83 ASM
From: Tony Lieuallen <marvin@saturn.superlink.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:32:07 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960828102337.20637B-100000@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, barrym wrote:


> > You could store compressed programs on the calc anyway. What would be 
> > the point though. If we could compress a program...say...halfway, 
> > then, after compression, if we wanted to USE it, we would still need 
> > the extra memory for it. Why reinvent the wheel when TI did it for 
> > you?
> If you have 10 programs stored they'll only take up half the
> space if theyre compressed 50%.  That means when a program is
> expanded and running it has more space available to it because
> the other 9 are taking up only half as much space.
> 
> What wheel?  TI did some things and we can choose to do more.
> That's what keeps computers going.


Better yet...  Have a SHORT asm program (that would be 3Shell?), to run all the
other programs that are in compressed form.  That way, you DON'T have to
uncompress them.  I'm saying make a ZShell for the 83, because we can do it
better than TI did!


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