RE: Improving Operating Speed

["Albertson, Chris" <CAlbertson@primeadvantage.com>]

If someone wants code to either readout the RAM
buffer at full speed or to write data out in
FITS format using our TASS conventions let me know.
I've got both.  It will still take some effort to make
this work with Tom's QBASIC but at least you'd have a
big chunk of debugged code to start with.  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege@veriomail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:46 PM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Improving Operating Speed
> 
> 
> Andrew and Chris have convinced me that there is a lot to be 
> gained by 
> writing a small amount of code in some better language.  This 
> would allow 
> Michael to use his old computer to run MICHAEL instead of 
> buying a new one.
> 
> I think it is a small job.  A little bigger if .fts files are 
> written.  It 
> can be done transparently with the present code, just 
> replacing 27 lines of 
> Qbasic code with:
> 
> SHELL program, argument, argument...
> 
> OK, I used to get lots of messages saying "what can I do for 
> tass"?  Here 
> is something to do.  I bet there are 100 reading this that 
> could do it in a 
> couple of evenings.  Won't someone take on the project?  b(my 
> capital b 
> just died on my favorit keyboard)est would be someone who 
> knows about .fts 
> formats so that .fts files could be written directly.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
>