Re: A86: Reader


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Re: A86: Reader



DEATH wrote:

> Joseph Gaffney wrote:
> >
> > At 05:14 PM 9/15/97 -0400, MTNBIKE560@aol.com wrote:
> > >In a message dated 97-09-14 21:19:06 EDT, you write:
> > >
> > ><< speaking of tibasic being slow, has anyone thought of maybe an
> > > interpreter that can execute inline asm? that would be really
> useful for
> > > doing simple routines in tibasic, that are hard in asm
> > >  >>
> > >
> > >yeah..l was thinking of something along the lines of that.  What is
> the main
> > >reason for TI-Basic being slow?  is it error checking or something?
>
> >
> > It is because it is an interpreted language.
>
> i think TI also adds some lines of code to waste time (not that many
> routines need to have error checking for as much time as it wastes). A
>
> secret plot by teachers and TI to discourage playing games on calcs?

Hmm.. supposedly, the TI86 runs BASIC and a few other things a little
slower than the 85 because it has four RAM pages and the Z80 can only
work with it in 32k chunks so it has to switch..  but in some ways.. I
can't imagine how it could slow it as much as it does.  EX:  86 takes
about 2 min. longer to do Sierpinski triangle BASIC program.  Hmm...
You know.. most people at my school still use BASIC games so I guess the
purposeful slowdown is possible..  Well... we don't have ROM dumps for
nothing. (-:




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