Re: Running Apps. Off Expander
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Re: Running Apps. Off Expander
You can't run code directly from the calc, well not practically.
In order to get info from the SF expander, you need to download
it from the chip, DECODE it, and then run it. If you do this for
every single piece of code, you get sub-turtle speeds. Instead, you
transfer a sizable block, decode all that, and work from there. That would
mean Mel Tsai has to write a sub that automates downloading. That would
mean you need a table in your CALC, not the SF (or a table in the SF at a
specified address, which would be updated often and that's not very smart
with bubble mem), and go from there. It's possible, but you'd have to
download in chunks. If you are asking if it would be possible to run
bigger-than-32k code, yes. If you are asking if it would be possible to run
programs with virtually nothing left in your calc, no.
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-R.Zwitserloot@BTInternet.com
No Body <jermacide@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote in article
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> I have been talking to many of my local friends who are very avare of
> hardware and software workings on computers (as am I) and we have come
> to a blank in our pool of knowledge. Is it possible to set up a data
> stream from the memory expander (By Mel Tsai)so that programs could be
> run directly from the expander? If not, why? The transfer rate is
> 5kb/S and so i dont think that the prossesor is too fast for the data
> stream...
> Perhaps one of you can fill me in.
>
> P.S. Has anyone used the v.t.100 emulator for the clculator? If so
> please tell me what ist like, thanks
>
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