Re: A92: Recovering from Crashes on the 92+
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Re: A92: Recovering from Crashes on the 92+
The 92 has to be able to access more than 256 kb of
memory cause it can accesss the Rom which is 1
Meg. There's no way it copies each Rom function to
the ram Before running it. As far as I know (And as
NDStein said sortof) the 384K user archive is in the
same area of memory as the flash rom. Which would
mean that it WOULDN'T get erased if you crashed the
calc :)
There is however some difference because I think
TI tried to make it impossible to corrupt the Flash
Rom while a program can write to the user archive.
Right now I'm writing monopoly for the 92, but I'm
planning maybe to write an on-calc assembler in
the future.
Daniel Plaisted
dsplaisted@bigfoot.com
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:14:37 +0200 Niklas Brunlid <e96nbr@efd.lth.se>
writes:
Data in the Archive can't be accessed directly, it has to be copied into
the real RAM before you can use it. The 92+ has the processor set up
to access 256Kb of RAM, and must therefore use I/O ports to read
from/write to the archive. Someone please prove me wrong on this
one ;-)
<SNIP>
Bottom line: if we're ever going to be able to have anything like an
on-calc assembler or any such complex software on the calc we
have need a way to retain some data on the calc (in this case
sources and the assembler itself) when the assembled code
crashes.
Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
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