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Re: help with TPU's

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From: Dr John Stockton
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 00:00
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JRS:  In article <8a014e$3kh$1@zingo.tninet.se> of Mon, 6 Mar 2000
11:25:38 in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland, Tommy Petersen
<ewd505r@tninet.se> wrote:
>Hi everybody!
>
>I have a question.
>I have a A/D-board with a lot of TPU's to use with my programming and NO
>sourcecode.
>My program have expanded to the degree that it doesn't fit in my memory.
>Does anybody have any idea what to do?
>The TPU's can't be run in protected mode.

It's always unwise to not have source code.

Can you use overlays?

You may be able to break down a large program into a number of less
large ones, run in turn.

You may be able to save a little space by reducing the Stack to the
minimum needed, replacing use of "type string" by "type string[size]",
using IEEE types instead of 6-byte reals, etc.

If you have BP7, you can write a protected node program that uses Exec
to run real-mode programs.

Note - as per mFAQ - your question will not be seen by the experts in
b.p.t.  Moreover, forums.borland.com seems sickly.
 
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From: Dr John Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: help with TPU's
Date: 2000/03/06
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