Re: LZ: ?s about ram expander!


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Re: LZ: ?s about ram expander!



list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:29:49 -0600, you wrote:
> >I thought you were going to make it so that you can run programs off the
> >extender (or do you mean it's as slow as running programs off the floppy
> >drive?)!
> >
> 
> After I'm done writing the send/receive software, I'll start work on
> an "Extender Shell" that will automate the process of downloading the
> zshell program into free memory, running it, then deleting it after
> you exit the program.  The only slowdown will be when you first start
> the program because large programs could take 10 or 15 seconds to
> download.  I'm not sure when I'll get the Extender Shell done, but
> it's definitely in my future plans.
> 
> -Mel
> 
> --
> The TI-85 Memory Expansion Homepage
> http://pilot.msu.edu/user/tsaimelv/expander.htm


Make sure to cache the stuff and be able to run local programs. For those 
programs that exit often. Make it so that you can send/receive programs 
and possible execute them, although the code addition required to execute 
programs would be kind of useless.


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