Re: A92: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!

To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A92: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!
From: Arno.Kizina@t-online.de (Arno Kizina)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 01:00:43 +0100
References: <19980103.210144.3446.0.Larry1492@juno.com>
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Larry G Currie schrieb:
> I don't get it... Everyone is trying to make a hardware memory 
> expansion. It cost money... Why not use a logical way to solve the 
> problem. Compress! I figure that if the programmers (I really sould have 
> written this to the asm list, but I'm not gonna subscribe) would make a 
> shell (I'm talking about 82) that takes up most of the memory, and it's 
> mostly blank space. Then the shell and some homemade link software would 
> use a protocal to transfer new files into the compressed space. The 
> shell would decompress the file it's going to run and put it into the 
> compressed/free space, uncompressed. So the shell never lets anything 
> out of it's 'space.' The leftover space would have to be enough to allow 
> the calculator to function normally. I don't understand why no one has 
> tried it (and publicly announced it.)
>
> -Joe Martis
Why not, I like having space to save stuff and compressing uses time and needs 
memory too,btw, the expansion cost not more than 30 German marks and was 
directly inserted		A.K.

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Re: A92: Why make hardware upgrade? CMPRS!!!

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From: larry1492@juno.com (Larry G Currie)