Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
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Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
>What you are siply saying is to ignore the os that is there and rewrite
>routines for everything that must be done. Everything. This gets very
>tedious, let me assure you.
>
>Additionally, let me also alert you to the fact that you are not the first
>with this idea, and I bet even someone has done it before. The thing that
>makes it not-so-widespread is the fact that everytime you wanted to use the
>real calculaotr functions of the thing, you would have to reset the entire
>ram. all of it would be gone. Then, to get back to the new os state, you
>would have to reload everything from a computer, even an eii wouldnt help
>you here becasue you would need a driver to recieve everything
>
>that means that you could play games 1st, 2nd, 3rd hour, but then during
>math class, 4th hour, you swicth back to nomrla ti-os, and youd be stuck
>like that until you got home, 5 hours later.
>
>This is unacceptable to most ppl, usually high school students in our cass.
>
>All curent shells are made specifiically to deal with this problem: make the
>tios present and accessible,while allowing easy switching back to the asm
>access shell.
>
>I also beg to differ on your point about the current shells not allowing any
>more of the TI-86 system resources than the ti-os does alone. For instance,
>only asm can do grayscale. the current shells can do anything the
>programmers put in them. tO access more resources, the shell maker would
>only need to put in routines to access them. It would not require you to
>have an os that ignores the tios.
>
>Just my $45.35 worth.
With CP/M, there are much more better math programs available. I have a
IBM CP/M workstation. Even though its clocked at 1MHz, using math routines
stored on 15" disks, it can do calculus routines much faster than the calc.
Grant
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