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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2012, 10:15:05 am »
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This reminds me slightly of http://xkcd.com/768/

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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2012, 11:09:30 am »
Yeah I always found this sucked, because TI claimed most 82 programs were compatible with the 83 and 83+, while 83 programs ran on the 83+ (BASIC of course), but most large ones in fact don't run due to lack of RAM. The 82 has 28 KB, the 83 a bit less than 27K and the 83+ 24K. Kinda ironic too considering the newer the calc, the lower the RAM (the same thing happened with the Casio FX-cg10/20)
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I don't think so....
I am pretty sure that the PRIZM and the 9860 have approx the same amount of RAM.



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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2012, 11:30:36 am »
No, the PRIZM (61 KB) has 3 KB less user RAM than the 9860 (64 KB).

Also I noticed the same problem when going from the FX 9850G (32 KB) to the newer 9750G (28 KB)

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Yeah true, although the point is that it would be cool if it was possible to run archived programs using prgmNAME (like the TI-89) rather than having to use a different syntax and external program. That way no code modification would be required.
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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2012, 04:04:47 pm »
or a small chunk of Asm in a helper program, that allows you to use TIOS's archive and unarchive commands.

There's lots of options

I used that in Sunrise 3, but it would wear down your flash quickly.
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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2012, 04:14:02 pm »
So... Everyone should buy calculators instead of obligations?
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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2012, 05:57:54 pm »
I believe that was what the OP meant.
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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2012, 03:18:06 pm »
or a small chunk of Asm in a helper program, that allows you to use TIOS's archive and unarchive commands.

There's lots of options

I used that in Sunrise 3, but it would wear down your flash quickly.
IIRC it won't happen in less than 20 years and that's if you rewrite your archive non-stop, like modding the calc to connect it to a power supply and have it run a forced garbage collect program that loops forever without ever stopping it.. It drains batteries very fast, though (see The Reign of Legends 1 and 2, for example). This is why it's great that one day there were new programs letting you copy archive content in RAM instead of un/archiving it constantly.

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Re: Calculators should be used as the world's reserve currency.
« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2012, 04:59:00 pm »
Umm... I'm planning to use my calc for as long as I can. Maybe more than 20 years.
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