Re: Oops! : Another dumb HP-41 question Message #7 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 20 July 2010, 12:41 a.m., in response to message #6 by Monte Dalrymple
Hi, Monte;
about speeding up the machine: I support Raymund愀 suggestion of compiling GTO愀. In fact, if I am not wrong, your HP41MD (how did you like it?) already deals with expansions, right? In a way, it incorporates features available with, say, MLDL2000 and HEPAX memory, right? If so, compiling programs is automatic when you incorporate their codes into HEPAX memory (HSAVEP), for instance. I am using HEPAX as an example because it needs only a few keystrokes to generate a compiled copy of a user code as a ROM program, and this compiled program runs as fast as any other ROM-based user code, AFAIK.
If a single CLA (or any suggestive message, like WAIT...) AVIEW is added to the beginning of a time consuming routine or procedure, the LCD contents will be unchanged till it ends. Based on what has been written in the follow-ups, that would be just a matter of choice while writing programs.
Just an extra comment: back in the 80愀, when I was at the University, I remember being scared to death when running a program with controlled loops, error detection and status messages. Suddenly the message in the display began to rotate around the edges in the LCD and I briefly thought: "God d*** it! My 41C is broken!" I felt my heart pumping in my cheeks for a while, and then I decided to investigate. The only possible explanation was related to flag 25: after an error occurrence the display contents would behave as the flying goose. Scary experience of mine...
Cheers.
Luiz (Brazil)
Edited: 20 July 2010, 12:52 a.m.
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