Re: A86: Compiling? (not in asm)
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Re: A86: Compiling? (not in asm)
BTW, the thing that tipped him off to this was by typing a single colon ":"
from the homescreen, it prints "Done", which is only printed when basic or
asm program is finished. A further in-depth study of this would help in
understanding how the 86 parses commands. Is anyone (besides Stephen
Hicks) working on this?
At 04:01 PM 7/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I hope this isn't too far off subject. ;-)
>
>This would seem to make the 82/83 better than the 85/86, which is not the
>case. On the 85/86, everything is more integrated. Ever tried to write a
>basic program on the homescreen? My friend found this during a boring
>precalc class. You could write an entire basic program from the
>homescreen, lables included. This is not possible on the 82/83, because
>they do not tokenize. On those, you cannot even execute a single basic
>command from the homescreen (on the 82, you can't even get one there,
>because it has no catalog).
>
>At 04:06 PM 7/24/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>
>>Yes. The ti-85, and 86 both tokenize BASIC programs b4 they run
>them...Not to
>>make them necessarily smaller, but help the OS "understand" the program
>better
>>at run-time, thus making it faster once execution begins. Any time you
press
>>"Enter" in the OS, the calculator tokenizes the commands that you gave it,
>>even if you just say 1+1 [ENTER], it will still tokenize that
line....This is
>>why basic mathematic functions execute faster on the 82/83 OS....and is also
>>why it takes a LONG time to do things like 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
>>[ENTER], while on an 82/83 it takes almost the same amount of time as 1+1
>>[ENTER].
>>
>>I have made programs that almost double in size after tokenization...It's
>>normal.
>>
>
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>
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