Don Wilhelm wrote:
No wonder I was being confused by all this - HEY, if you can access
any of the 4 memories randomly, then it is no longer a 'stack'!
From what little programming I learned, a 'stack' is accessed only
from the top - you stuff things into it, and then remove the topmost
one, throw it away if that is not what you wanted and do it over again
until you have the correct one. (OK, my mind goes back to the 8080
PUSH and POP instructions).
If it were me, I would have named them something like 'In-band memory'
rather than 'Band Stacking Memory', but I guess there is some
precedent for that name. In any case, I am glad that the K3 offers
random access for these memories.
Right on, Don. It is not a stack.
The implementation of "band-stacking resisters" in most of the available
rigs today is that of a "circular queue", a first-in first-out (FIFO)
mechanism that is only accessible in one direction from the starting
point. I much prefer the Elecraft K3 random-access "array" of memories.
Gus Hansen
KB0YH
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