Re: Universal Link Library

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: Universal Link Library
From: Reinier Zwitserloot <R.Zwitserloot@BTINTERNET.COM>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:51:53 GMT
Organization: BT Internet
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Please people, don't post when you don't know what you are talking
about. You *CANNOT* write a program that will work on *ANY*
calculator. The only way to do that is to first write an all new
program language with compatibility in mind, kinda like C. Just like
ANSI C, you are *VERY* limited in commands, and the games/programs
made will be both bigger and slower. On IBM PCs, no one cares, since
it'll run at speed on a 233Mhz pipelining processor anyway, and their
1.6Gig harddrives and 32MB don't run out for quite a while.

On the TI-8x, programs need to be top-of-the-line. Just like TI-BASIC
programs are unacceptable to most zshellers, so will this new thing be
unacceptable. Sure, it'll be better and faster than ti-basic, but it
won't be as good as current zshell stuff.

HAL is making a beginning towards some sort of compatibility, but some
work is always needed.

References:

Re: Universal Link Library

From: Octavio Carrasco <al586590@MAIL.MTY.ITESM.MX>

Re: Universal Link Library

From: Tavis Segura <tsegura@RICE.EDU>

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