RE: A89: TI-89 GNU OPEN TI OS Pre-Proposal


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RE: A89: TI-89 GNU OPEN TI OS Pre-Proposal




That sounds too good to be true. Not having any programming experience,
would this be hard to do?:-)

Simon Ghionea
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Cassano
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 1998 9:44 AM
> To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: A89: TI-89 GNU OPEN TI OS Pre-Proposal
>
>
>
>     With the talk of a new TI-89 OS, I wanted to voice my opinion on
> what the OS would be like. The entire idea and purpose of this OS would
> be to make the TI-89 as open and as accessable as possible. The current
> OS, that TI provides doesn't give us the power we desire out of our
> calcs. We need more. We need to push our TI's to the max! Here we go.
> Tell me what you think. Don't tell me that it's a stupid idea. You don't
> help anyone. We can do whatever I want to do.
>
> TI-89 GNU OPEN TI OS
>
> Proposal
>
> PC to TI connectivity station
> External GNU C/C++/ASM Compilers ( why aren't we using these with good
> libraries? )
>
> Stable System Kernal ( does the system chores, interupts, blah, blah )
> A standard programming library
> File System (with compression options)
> GUI and text Shell interfaces
> Multi-tasking
> Networking Protocal
> Standard system DLL's program interfaces
> Security System
> Scripting language (similar to TI-BASIC but more power and robust, like
> Java Script)
> Word Processing and other associated applications ( extras )
>



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