Re: A92: TIOS: Can't live with it. Can't live without it?
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Re: A92: TIOS: Can't live with it. Can't live without it?
The TIOS is Basic, right? What should be done is having a choice to use
either OS. Like on some computers when it boots up it askes you if you want
to run Dos or Windows. This is what should be done with the TI-92. If a
person wants to use the calculator to do math then that person uses the TIOS.
If the person wants to use it as a "Gameboy" then that person will use the
new OS soley for that.
The probley with that is that there is no hard drive in the calculator to be
divided to do that. There is only a memory chip. So if TI desinged a devive
that is able to load either OS into the memory chip then when another OS is
called for the calcuator can erase it's memory and then the device loads in
another one. This has to be an external device that you can think of being a
hard drive. And the memory chip can be thought of being a zip drive.
This makes alot of sence because if the OS crashes the calculator, than
instead of getting a new calculator you just delete the memory and then
change the OS.