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From: b3300876@rick.cs.ubc.ca (george kai yee chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Two questions...
Keywords: Tetris, accelerate, cosine
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.174532.20250@rick.cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 29 Sep 90 17:45:32 GMT
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In article <1990Sep28.141706.24027@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri) writes:
>I would think that the way to speed it up is to write it in the CHIP48
>language.  This would bypass the slowness associated with interpreted
>RPL and garbage collection, because CHIP48 is written in machine code
>and its language is much easier to interpret.  With a little ingenuity
>and planning, I don't think tetris would be too hard to accomplish
>with CHIP48.

Could anyone explain to me what CHIP48 is? I was off of c.s.h from the last
week of August and I seem to have missed everything wrt CHIP48. Is is an
alternative language for the HP? Is it still an interpreter? Where is it 
documented? Ie, how do I go about learning it?

>					.oO Chris Oo.
>-- 
>Christopher Lishka 608-262-4485  "Dad, don't give in to mob mentality!"
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George Chow