A82: Fw: Proposed open operating system/gui/shell (CalcOS-82,83,85,86)

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A82: Fw: Proposed open operating system/gui/shell (CalcOS-82,83,85,86)

-----Original Message-----
From: Riley McArdle <rileym@geocities.com>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.calc-ti
Date: Monday, 13 October, 1997 00:28
Subject: Proposed open operating system/gui/shell (CalcOS-82,83,85,86)


>I am proposing a new operating system.  Unlike anything any other TI
>calculator has seen (other than the 92).  I have attached my notes so far.
>Nothing is started yet so don't ask for a download site.  I have been
>looking at the state of ti calculators for a while and I have been
thinking.
>It is so hard for someone to get started programming.  Once they do get
>programming, there are so many operating systems (at least two for each
>calculator) and twice as many gui/shell/apis.  Most of them are also closed
>source code.  What I am proposing is an open operating system with
>reasonable portability and SMALL size.  The way I think that we can make it
>small is with compression.  If we had a small kernel and a compression
>library, we could load and unload programs from RAM (or even a memory
>expander like the ones for the TI-85) and dynamically decompress them.  I
>also think that the operating system needs to have dynamic linked libraries
>so that common code can be shared (which would also help with size).  I am
>starting with the TI-82 (because that is what I have) and TASM (not the one
>from Borland).  I don't know a whole lot about assembly (especially Z80)
but
>I definitely know a lot about programming and operating systems.
>
>By the way, the name I have chosen is CalcOS-82 (and in the future,
>CalcOS-83, CalcOS-85, and CalcOS-86)
>
>IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO HELP PROGRAM, E-MAIL ME!  Please include which part
>you would like to program (from the list in the attached file), don't go to
>far ahead until we have the basic structure set up (i.e. kernel, basic gui)
>
>--
>
>Riley McArdle
>rileym@geocities.com
>http://griffn.base.org/
>

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