Re: LZ: Really **strange** idea!


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Re: LZ: Really **strange** idea!



Eric Barker (rbarker@polarnet.com)


> Ben Shakal wrote:
> 
> The question of turning off the calc has been a point of confusion
> for a lot of people (not you specifically Mr. Cordes because you
> wrote it, of course, but I want to clarify it for others who might
> not understand it).  When you press 2nd-ON to turn the calc off, all
> it does is disable the timer interrupts, turn off the LCD, and HALTs
> the cpu right where it is.  When you press the ON key later, it sends
> an interrupt, which simply "unfreezes" the processor and it picks up
> where it left off.  It does the same thing when it turns off
> automatically.  When a program like CalcOFF or KCLock85 turns the
> calc off, it does the same thing, halting and picking up where it
> left off.  Hope that helps!


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Yeah, but I think 2nd OFF does a little more than the automatic turn 
off, because if I'm in TI-Basic (icky!) and type 2nd OFF, when I hit ON 
I appear at the home screen.


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