[A83] Re: What is the problem with flash writes (in general)


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[A83] Re: What is the problem with flash writes (in general)




ASM programs can also create AppVars.


Michael Vincent
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Radical Software - www.radicalsoft.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Meyer" <kirk.meyer@colorado.edu>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: [A83] Re: What is the problem with flash writes (in general)


>
> Apps can do it, I don't know about other programs. Apps can create an
APPVAR
> and bcall ArcUnarc. It might be wondered, however, what the point of this
> would be, since the sorts of data usually stored in APPVARs is (usually)
> small stuff, which best resides in RAM. An exception to this is TI's
> ridiculous Transformation Graphing App, which for animations creates a
> picture of each and stores all of them into an APPVAR. This thing can get
> huge, and it might be nice to archive it in this case (isn't going to be
> changed once its created anyway, unless its deleted...)
>
> Generically speaking, writing back to the program is bad style. The only
> case where it might be useful is high scores. Using something such as an
> APPVAR ensures that settings are specific to individual calculators.
> Consider the all to common problem of someone getting a password program
> from someone else, but not knowing what their password was, and then the
> person they got it from mysteriously dies... Okay that last part doesn't
> usually happen but you get the point.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of james l
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: [A83] What is the problem with flash writes (in general)
>
>
>
> Not really that no one has been able to do them in their programs, but the
> fear of failure.
>
> "Minimum 1,000,000 program/erase cycles per sector
> guarantead" -Am29F400B.pdf
> (amd's tech doc on it)
>
> Writing to it for everything, would be a hazard, but having programs do
> write-back to the flash for storage, shouldn't hurt at all. (if we could
do
> it)
>
>
> Just my .02USD
> James L.
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