A89: Re: Survey for the next version of PlusShell


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A89: Re: Survey for the next version of PlusShell




Kernel:
I totally agree with a kernel. A kernel has lots of advantages. The main
advantage is the safe of memory.
You don't need to include a specific feature(error-redirection, ...) in
every program on your calc, just put it in the kernel once and the feature
is accessable from all your files.
What is so hard on typing kernel() ?
Libraries:
Libraries are such universal, once the 92+,89 files compiled with previous
versions of PlusShell or DoorsOS will be updated there won't be a chaos any
longer. They safe memory because you sure will have at least 3 programs on
your 188k+384k calc which use UTIL.H. And UTIL.H will grow when official
asm-info will be released.
About making one-big-library? There would be too much version-problems,
imagine one is updating this the other one is updating that. Each one
release his own advanced library. Now we have got a problem!!
Another problem would be the growing of the one-big-library-memory. For now
we can not archive libraries. Isn't the max variable size 64k on 89/92+
because of the archive memory-sectors?
What about level files, music files, data files, maps, ...? Every single
file would be a program. Imagine a choice of ~100 files to execute in your
PlusShell Browser!

In all, don't change anything concerning the library-use or kernel-use and
don't waste memory!
Rusty, what's about the other unused sectors of flash-rom?

Klaus Lukaschek
slider_klaus@gmx.net