Date   : Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:39:58 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Using stack page for temp vars

2008/12/28 Michael Firth <mfirth@...>:
> Does that mean that I'm incorrect in my assumption that almost everyone
> would do any SRAM handling from BASIC?

Nope, but even you say /almost/ everyone, leaving the possibility that
some people will do it from something else.

>
> Do people really start up View, ViewSheet or Wordwise, and then think "I
> really need to have X loaded into my SRAM now?"

Nope, but plenty might from Exmon, for instance.  And I was only using
SRAM utils by way of example. I can quite see tools that manipulate
disc files being used from View.  Or how about something like *COMPACT
because you've run out of contiguous space on a floppy for that
dissertation you've just spent 12 hours solid typing... ;-)  It would
be more than annoying for it to crash the WP afterwards..

>
> My modus operandi is (and I think always was with the BBC) to load
> everything I'm going to need, then do my task, and then stop. I guess very
> occasionally, I would think "Oh bugger, I wish I'd loaded that", but it
> would be very infrequent. Also, as you usually need to reset after loading
> an SRAM image, having it mess up the current language isn't going to be a
> problem anyway.
>
> I guess back in the 80s, there were BBCs dedicated to one task which would
> turn on into View, or Wordwise or something, so it might matter for such
> machines, but I would have thought that even then 90%+ would have started up
> in BASIC, and then been switched to other languages. I would expect that now
> it would be at least 99% that would be multi-use machines.
>
> Michael
> Michael
>
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