[A92] Re: OS
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[A92] Re: OS
Just ripping the OS probably makes it imcompatible...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Boogerman" <boogerman@interar.com.ar>
To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:53 PM
Subject: [A92] Re: OS
>
> It would be technically possible, I think, to adapt and install another OS
> (like Linux) in the TI. However, there are some important drawbacks:
>
> - There is no MMU in the TI microprocessors, so the OS has no real way of
> controlling what a process does. It can't, for instance, prevent it from
> accessing OS protected memory areas.
> - The new OS would have a different file system, and a different way of
> allocating/freeing ram wich would cause severe incompatibilities with the
> TI-OS hardware functions. This means we would loose all the Math
> functionality of the TI and that we would have to program our own.
>
> Other than that, I think it would be good to try. I don't know if Linux
can
> work without an MMU, but if it did, we could easily use Scilab or Octave
> wich are very powerfull mathematic tools.
>
> Boogerman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Fineman" <amfineman@earthlink.net>
> To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:31 PM
> Subject: [A92] Re: OS
>
>
> >
> > I hear all the math stuff is hardware so that is minimum support.
> Little
> > unit support. Less Tokens. Better gui. Faster. Hard to install. sound
like
> > Linux? <whee>Pocket Linux 92</whee> that would be good, actually.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "BIGB" <eins_zwo@hotmail.com>
> > To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:29 AM
> > Subject: [A92] Re: OS
> >
> >
> > >
> > > i donīt createt such one, but it sounds cool, i also thought about it,
> > > really!!
> > > Another OS, maybe a little less Memory needed, therefore a bit
faster!!
> > >
> > > BIG B
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Aaron Fineman" <amfineman@earthlink.net>
> > > To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:51 PM
> > > Subject: [A92] Re: OS
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > This might be 89 only but there is a program that ?deletes? your
base
> > code
> > > > and allows you to install any kind of OS, even one you created. Just
> > > wanted
> > > > to know if anyones created an OS yet.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "BIGB" <eins_zwo@hotmail.com>
> > > > To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:44 PM
> > > > Subject: [A92] Re: OS
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > what do you mean??
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Aaron Fineman" <amfineman@earthlink.net>
> > > > > To: "Asm 92" <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:42 PM
> > > > > Subject: [A92] OS
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Just curios, but has any one ever made a replacement OS using
the
> OS
> > > > > ripper?
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