Re: CAN TH TI-86 RUN Z-SHELL??
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Re: CAN TH TI-86 RUN Z-SHELL??
Probably; the programs are just shown in hex, but saved in ASCII.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Open discussion of TI Graphing Calculators On Behalf Of Mislav Bilobrk
Sent: Monday, June 02, 1997 2:03 PM
To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: CAN TH TI-86 RUN Z-SHELL??
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Eggplant Farms wrote:
> > I have a question, would zshell even make sense on the ti-86 (because of
> > it's built in capabilities) isn't there more overhead with zshell, plus it
> > takes up space etc. etc.
>
> Question- doesn't the built-in asm function onthe 83/86 take up twice as
much
> memory because you have to type in the program in hex instead of ascii? If
> so, say you have 75k of asm programs. -2k for the shell +37k saved by the
> shell. You now are using 40k.
>
Aren't they supposed to be tokenized, as it happens with ti85 progs when
they are executed for the first time after editing - typing in
hex, saving in ASCII?
~bili