Re: A83: TI and their Calc OSs
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Re: A83: TI and their Calc OSs
Yeah, wake up.
What do people want? A useful calculator, in which you can enter "1+1" and
press enter without having to take out the batteries *at all*. All the complex
routines they're used to. Compatibility.
Sure, we could do all that, but it's like reinventing the wheel (which is an
cliché I hate, but anyway). And always remember: Everything is possible. It is
_possible_ to patch f.ex. so that 1+1 would yield 3, not saying I know exactly
HOW, but I know it can be done. The TI-83 os is adaptable, though it isn't
obvious. But who said coding should be easy?
Oh, and there's no BIOS in the ti-83, the whole os is in rom.
Linus
On 10-Sep-98, Miles Raymond wrote:
>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.
>--
> - Michael Astrauskas ICQ UIN: 1946065, Trevelyan
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