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excerpt: "Investigating the dynamic areas of memory in the TS2068 is liking nailing jelly to the wall. Certain system variables point to the location of these areas, but you can't find out their values. As soon as you PEEK into these system variables, you change them. The program presented here allows you to look at some…"
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# Snapshot of TS-2068 System Variables

Investigating the dynamic areas of memory in the TS2068 is liking nailing jelly to the wall. Certain system variables point to the location of these areas, but you can’t find out their values. As soon as you PEEK into these system variables, you change them. The program presented here allows you to look at some of the dynamic areas by using a machine language routine. It makes a copy, at an instant in time, of several of these dynamic areas and the system variables that point to them. You can then use a machine language utility such as HOTZ to look at what was in these areas at the instant.