Re: A92: Re: Shells and assembler
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Re: A92: Re: Shells and assembler
>It'd be 400,000 times faster if the OS'd just let
>the bios take care of that stuff.
Not in our case, since the OS is in ROM and is no faster than a BIOS could
be. And Linux, which you mentioned earlier, -doesn't- let the BIOS take
care of stuff. :-)
>Anyway, even on a calculator, my new OS is far from feasable. I think the
>next big jump needs to be in a c/c++ compiler for M68k, if it doesn't already
>exist. i think there's a compiler for the Z80.
Well, since the M68K was a semi-dominant processor for fifteen years or so,
there are a scad of 'em. We've already adapted GCC-68K to work on the 92+,
and there's probably other efforts going on. GCC is nice because of it's
smokin' optimization engine.
If you meant an on-calculator one...then yes, I agree with you, we need
one. *grin* I don't think there's one of -those- for the Z80, but I know
there's a nice on-calc assembler. (It's strange that the 8x calculators
have an on-calc assembler, whereas we, with our more powerful architecture
and QWERTY keyboard, don't even have a third-party TEXT EDITOR yet.)
--Cliff Biffle
Optimist: This glass is half full.
Pessimist: This glass is half empty.
Cynic: They drank my water. Figures.
Engineer: The glass should be -half- this size! -Ender
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