A86: Re: Large ASM
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A86: Re: Large ASM
wasn't he the guy who came up with the "Libraries are Great for 86" anthem?
----- Original Message -----
From: <ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Cc: <pwong0124@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 9:16 PM
Subject: A86: Large ASM
>
> This Patrick Wong guy is up to it AGAIN...
>
> Anyway, this is yet another email regarding Patrick Wong's
> (pwong0124@hotmail.com) latest shell, Large ASM, which supposedly supports
> executing programs up to 32k in size. Although that's a very nice
concept,
> I'd like to discourage anybody from supporting this incompatible format
for a
> number of reasons:
> 1. It states support up to 32k, but in fact any program exceeding 16k in
> size cannot access ANY rom calls.
> 2. If you wanted to send the program to another calc, you would have to
> RESET IT! Large ASM requires certain programs to be in specific locations
of
> memory, which makes distribution essentially impossible.
> 3. His "solution" to accidentally executing large programs with Asm( --
> having the first opcode be a "ret" -- is entirely ineffective because any
> program exceeding 9000 bytes in size will overwrite the stack and
instantly
> crash.
> 4. The "feature" where it automatically writes back all data renders
> compression such as lite86 useless, meaning that "large" programs would be
> made 20-40% larger just by using the technology.
>
> Currently the TI-86 is the ONLY ti calculator not requiring a shell to run
> any asm program. In my opinion, this is a beautiful thing, because there
> needs to be only one version of every program released rather than a dozen
> ports; also, old programs don't have to constantly be converted to the
latest
> and greatest shell that just came out. No programs are left behind. If
we
> all stick with standards, things will remain that way. Yet Patrick Wong
> wants to take all that away from you just because he doesn't feel like
> storing data in a string.
>
>
> ----
> Jonah Cohen
> <ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
> http://jonah.ticalc.org
>
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