Re: OS - gui
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I think the point is to make a DE that fits completely in the calculator...
a full-fledged C compiler would be impractical on Zshell, but something
simple, like Debug (assembler), would work...
At 22:25 8/1/96 -0400, Michael Castleman wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, barrym wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, JArtis1 wrote:
>>
>> > I think as long as someone is interested in creating a GUI operating
>> > system, SOMEBODY should sit down and write a C compiler, probably through
>> > ZShell.
>>
>> It would be kind of hard to fit a c compiler in the available 32k.
>> And even if you could, c programs are typically several times the
>> size of assembly programs. And generally the smaller the compiler,
>> the larger the executable.
>>
>> Small C as an example, for it's compiler and libraries, needs about
>> 60k or thereabouts. Then you need an assemlber and a linker. At a
>> minimum you'd need around 90k - 100k just to hold the compiler and
>> it's tools, and then more memory for it to run in and even more for
>> it's output.
>
>I don't have a TI, but what one could do if [s]he was interested would be
>to create a compiler that runs under DOS (or Windows, or Mac, or Linux,
>or whatever) and compile the programs *there*, and send up only the
>output onto the calc.
>
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