Re: A86: Re: Re: Change the whole TI-89 operating system?
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Re: A86: Re: Re: Change the whole TI-89 operating system?
I fail to see the point of another os on the calc, like Linux, or even DOS
or CP/M. Really, all you need is a menu to run programs, since it is too
tedius to type lots of os commands on an 86-type keypad. Besides, you
wouldn't have any math functions. It'd be a cheap and much less powerful
palmtop/organizer that could run games.
It would be nice to add to the rom (if there's any room left on the chip).
Things like sprite functions and other standard (non math) functions that
now have to be put in shells or libs (or worse, in every program) would save
lots of ram. How about a built in real assembler and compiler (C?).
David Phillips
electrum@tfs.net
>>Actually the TI-89 is going to use a 68K chip instead of a Z80 (but other
>>than that, I guess it is possible to make a new rom)
>
>Yeah.. That's what I meant.. the 68K chip.. Hmm.. I heard someone is making
>a linux port for this chip. You know this is the same chip they used on the
>amiga. Wouldnt it be cool to make linux on a calculator? Once you had the
>core, all you would need to do is write display drivers and rom ("hard
>drive") drivers, and you have yourself your own operating system.. Of course
>it wouldnt completely be linux.. I mean, you wouldnt need multitasking...
>and linux might be too big in the first place.