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                |Flash Application              |AMS Native                     |Kernel Programs (4th versions) | Tigcc native               |
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Resides in:     |Protected Flash Memory         |RAM or Archive Memory          |RAM or Archive Memory          |RAM or Archive Memory       |
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Executes in:    |Protected Flash Memory         |RAM                            |RAM                            |RAM                         |
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Size :          |<= 800 K                       |65518 / 8K / 24K               |65518 bytes                    |65518 with launchers.       |
                |Limited by the amount of       |                               |Can be easilly increase        |180K with DLL               |
                |Flash memory free.             |                               |using libraries to 180K        |                            |
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BSS Section :   |Yes                            |No                             |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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Data Segment :  |Yes                            |Yes                            |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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Read Only Data Segment:                         |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes                            |No                             |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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Copy protection:                                |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes                            |No                             |No                             |No                          |
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Easy to distribute:                             |                               |                               |                            |
                |No, you need a certificate     |Yes                            |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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APPS Menu:      |Yes                            |No, directly.                  |No, directly.                  |No, directly.               |
                |                               |Yes, if you installed Id.      |Yes, if you installed Id.      |Yes, if you installed Id    |
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Self modifying code:                            |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |Yes                            |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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User interraction:                              |                               |                               |                            |
                |Event Driven only.             |What you want !                |What you want !                |What you want!              |
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System Overrides:                               |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes                            |No                             |Yes by using TSR               |Yes by using TSR            |
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Localization:   |Yes                            |No                             |No                             |No                          |
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TI-Basic extensions:                            |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes >=0                        |No                             |Yes                            |No                          |
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Shared code:    |Yes                            |No                             |Yes !                          |No                          |
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Conditionnal libraries:                         |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes                            |No                             |Yes                            |Yes throught DLL            |
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Libraries version:                              |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |-                              |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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Compressed libraries:                           |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |No                             |Yes                            |No                          |
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Packed libraries:                               |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |No                             |Yes                            |No                          |
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Fast dynamic libraries support:                 |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |No                             |Yes                            |No                          |
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Compulsory libraries:                           |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |No                             |Yes                            |No                          |
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Compressed application/programs:                |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |No.                            |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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Auto-uncompress when executing:                 |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |No                             |Yes                            |No, you need a TSR          |
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Comment:        |Yes                            |No                             |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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Icons:          |Yes                            |No                             |No                             |Yes                         |
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Static libraries:                               |                               |                               |                            |
                |No (?)                         |Yes                            |Yes                            |Yes                         |
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Protection from buggy programs:                 |                               |                               |                            |
                |No                             |No                             |Yes                            |No                          |
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Auto-clean:     |No                             |No                             |Yes                            |No                          |
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Object Oriented Features:                       |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes                            |No                             |No                             |No without a hack           |
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RAM consumtion when application/program inactive is 0 :                         |                               |                            |
                |No, Data Segment for each app  |Yes                            | No                            |Yes                         |
                |(it may consummes a lot !)     |                               |<4K for all programs           |                            |
                |                               |                               |(If you have 10 or 1 program,  |                            |
                |                               |                               |it will be only 4K).           |                            |
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Protection for Out-of-date AMS:                 |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes                            |No                             |Yes.                           |Yes                         |
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Can be run directly:                            |                               |                               |                            |
                |Yes                            |Yes                            |No                             |Yes                         |
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C Compiler Performance:                         |                               |                               |                            |
                | Bad                           | Average                       | Average                       | Average                    |
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Bugs    IDE:    | a lot of Bugs                 | Bugs are fixed quickly        | Bugs are fixed quickly        | Bugs are fixed quickly                            |
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C debug :       | Yes                           | No                            | No                            | No                         |
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Work on all AMS | No                            | Yes                           | Yes                           | Yes                        |
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