Re: TI-H: ti-turbo

Subject: Re: TI-H: ti-turbo
From: jmacha <jmacha@xmission.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:50:57 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <v01530507aea13b02984d@[206.154.165.109]>

On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, C.J. Oster wrote:


> >I'm pretty sure the 82 and maybe 83 have it, because on ticalc.org, in
> >the turbo docs, it says that the same proceedure can be used on the 82,
> >the capacitor is just in a different spot.
> 
> Then how come the 83 is faster than the 85?  I've been told that the 82 is
> as well.  On the same note, why does the calculator slow down considerably
> when the ram is close to full.  There is a good half second delay between
> the time I hit enter, and when I get the answer.  But if I erase my ram, it
> is almost instantaneous.  Any ideas?
> 
>                                       -C.J.-
> 
	Yeah, the TI-OS requires memory to do it's opertaiotns.. and it
looks to me that somewehre around 130k for an Operating system for a Z80
or even 8088 is too much to be efficient. I bet it was probably written in
some high-level langauge like C.. any ideas about this?

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Re: TI-H: ti-turbo

From: C.J. Oster <cjo@pobox.com>