Re: A83: TI and their Calc OSs
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Re: A83: TI and their Calc OSs
Give it up man. Let TI make theirown OS'es. it's a graphing calculator,
not a palmtop. I think TI does a great job anyway. Let's see what else?
I can think of a HUGE problem right now. If everyone made their own
ROM's, there would be no standard ROM calls.
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 23:45:25 -0500 "Miles Raymond" <m_rayman@bigfoot.com>
writes:
>If they released info and a few test calcs to the ticalc.org
>community, a better, more efficient OS could be made. I still think
>that TI would have to write the actual math functions. But at least
>the people will have a say in what how the OS in ROM interacts with
>the user, such as Philip Gossling's WinCE 86 shell/OS. If would
>release a way to call all of their math-related functions from an OS,
>and store the OS on a Flash BIOS, the user could have the OS of their
>choice. The WinCE 86 would be an excellent OS, because of it's
>scalability. The user could dump as many OS 'features' as is his
>desire into the Flash BIOS. Or, on the other hand, add as many TI
>math functions to the Flash BIOS as is his content. This would lead
>to diversity. Competition breeds quality.
>
>-Miles Raymond
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Astrauskas <julian63@geocities.com>
>To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 8:17 PM
>Subject: Re: A83: TI and their Calc OSs
>
>
>Miles Raymond wrote:
> Has anyone evry thought that TI would one day stop making their
>calcs with an OS, and just bundle a 3rd-party ASM OS instead? -Miles
>Raymond
>
>They'll probably never do that. The calculator is made for calculating
>and there aren't
>enough programmers that it'd be a good deal for them.
>
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