[A92] Re: OS

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[A92] Re: OS


It would be technically possible, I think, to adapt and install another OS
(like Linux) in the TI. However, there are some important drawbacks:

- There is no MMU in the TI microprocessors, so the OS has no real way of
controlling what a process does. It can't, for instance, prevent it from
accessing OS protected memory areas.
- The new OS would have a different file system, and a different way of
allocating/freeing ram wich would cause severe incompatibilities with the
TI-OS hardware functions. This means we would loose all the Math
functionality of the TI and that we would have to program our own.

Other than that, I think it would be good to try. I don't know if Linux can
work without an MMU, but if it did, we could easily use Scilab or Octave
wich are very powerfull mathematic tools.

Boogerman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Fineman" <amfineman@earthlink.net>
To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: [A92] Re: OS


>
>     I hear all the math stuff is hardware so that is minimum support.
Little
> unit support. Less Tokens. Better gui. Faster. Hard to install. sound like
> Linux? <whee>Pocket Linux 92</whee> that would be good, actually.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BIGB" <eins_zwo@hotmail.com>
> To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:29 AM
> Subject: [A92] Re: OS
>
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> >
> > i donīt createt such one, but it sounds cool, i also thought about it,
> > really!!
> > Another OS, maybe a little less Memory needed, therefore a bit faster!!
> >
> > BIG B
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Aaron Fineman" <amfineman@earthlink.net>
> > To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:51 PM
> > Subject: [A92] Re: OS
> >
> >
> > >
> > > This might be 89 only but there is a program that ?deletes? your base
> code
> > > and allows you to install any kind of OS, even one you created. Just
> > wanted
> > > to know if anyones created an OS yet.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "BIGB" <eins_zwo@hotmail.com>
> > > To: <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:44 PM
> > > Subject: [A92] Re: OS
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > what do you mean??
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Aaron Fineman" <amfineman@earthlink.net>
> > > > To: "Asm 92" <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:42 PM
> > > > Subject: [A92] OS
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Just curios, but has any one ever made a replacement OS using the
OS
> > > > ripper?
> > > > >
> > > >
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