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Re: Getting extra memory

From Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>
Subject Re: Getting extra memory
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Message-ID <58ca40be2dbob@sick-of-spam.invalid> (permalink)
References <58ca210e71bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <58ca23d0f5News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <58ca26a060bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <rnuqjl$alc$1@dont-email.me>
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Date 2020-11-04 18:33 +0000

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In article <rnuqjl$alc$1@dont-email.me>,
   druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> On 04/11/2020 13:48, Bob Latham wrote:
> > In article <58ca23d0f5News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
> >     Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> >> In article <58ca210e71bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
> >>     Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> Not sure what, if or how you have set workspace.
> > 
> > It starts out as just the "next" slot 640K.
> > 
> >> I am not sure why you are resorting to assembler, when you could do
> >> it in BASIC quite easily.
> > 
> > 1. For the speed.
> > 
> > 2. This is for pleasure, I like assembler. Always my first choice
> > unless I need chunky maths then I'm forced into Basic.

> That's the wrong way around! By all means use assembler for speed
> critical things - such as chunky maths.

> But for mundane things such as memory allocation and loading a
> file, take advantage of a high level language to do the donkey
> work of getting the OS to shift memory about, and read the data
> from the filing system.

I'm certain you're right Dave.

But it doesn't make me like Basic any the more. :-)


Bob.

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Bob Latham
Stourbridge, West Midlands

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Getting extra memory Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2020-11-04 12:47 +0000
  Re: Getting extra memory Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-11-04 13:17 +0000
    Re: Getting extra memory Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2020-11-04 13:48 +0000
      Re: Getting extra memory Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-11-04 17:23 +0000
        Re: Getting extra memory Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2020-11-04 18:04 +0000
          Re: Getting extra memory Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-11-04 18:44 +0000
            Re: Getting extra memory Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2020-11-04 22:03 +0000
      Re: Getting extra memory druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-11-04 18:06 +0000
        Re: Getting extra memory Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2020-11-04 18:33 +0000
  Re: Getting extra memory Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2020-11-04 17:38 +0000
    Re: Getting extra memory Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2020-11-04 18:11 +0000
      Re: Getting extra memory Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2020-11-04 18:32 +0000

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