[A89] p55x


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[A89] p55x



Or, Proposal for Modernization of 68K Calculator Development on Unix.
Windows people who want to reap any bounty should use Cygwin or MinGW until 
such time as they get a real operating system.

Improve TiLP and such.
- Trash libticables, or greatly reduce. Require kernel module for black, 
parallel, USB links.
- Improve kernel module build process. (This is the only thing I've already 
done.)
- Fix compatibility issues.
- Prettify file selector (among other things). At least make it start in CWD 
as opposed to home directory, and make it not show hidden files (if it does, 
which I think it does.) Allow entry of pathnames instead of click-o-rama.
- Get rid of debug gibberish. Provide for totally quiet non-interactive mode.
- Squash compatibility issues. Allow to work beside GtkTiEmu.

Building.
- Trash specialized TIGCC. Replace with direct build from GNU sources, plus 
some libs and headers. Real Programmers don't use IDEs.
- Patch GNU as to accept a68k syntax.
- Teach proper use of modular programming, assembler/C mixing, GNU extensions, 
GNU make, and linking.
- (warning: compatibility breakage) Make API more ANSI/POSIXish. Remove evil 
monolithic header files.
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