SD: UNIX on the TI8x

To: shell-developers@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: SD: UNIX on the TI8x
From: "Dominic Cooney" <coonsta@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:39:42 PDT
Reply-To: shell-developers@lists.ticalc.org

A strange subset of UNIX actually exists, specifically designed for 
small computers.  Its mostly for imbedded systems I think, but it is 
specifically intended for Z80 processor based systems, which these 
calculators are (the TI8xs, anyway).  The only problem would be that 
there wouldn't be much space for programs on there when you'd finished, 
but I'm sure it would be possible to do.  On another note, UNIX is 
written in C... ...anyone want to write a C compiler specifically for 
the TI82/85?  I picked up a copy of Kernighan and Ritchie's 'The C 
Programming Language' from my public library recently for only 30c, 
because they were throwing it out, and it contains a fairly full 
specification of the language in it.  A lot of C compilers exist for the 
Z80 for free, but you usually have to pay for the source code, and most 
of them describe themselves as 'C--' or 'Small C', meaning they either 
don't support floating-point numbers, structures, unions, etc.  It would 
be nice to implement a fully fledged one, don't you think?

Cheers,
Dominic Cooney, coonsta@hotmail.com
"YOU'LL PAY TO KNOW WHAT YOU _REALLY_ THINK!" -J.R. 'BOB' DOBBS


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