Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
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Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: <shell-developers@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 1999 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
>
>>What you are siply saying is to ignore the os that is there and rewrite
>>routines for everything that must be done. Everything. This gets very
>>tedious, let me assure you.
>>
>>Additionally, let me also alert you to the fact that you are not the first
>>with this idea, and I bet even someone has done it before. The thing that
>>makes it not-so-widespread is the fact that everytime you wanted to use
the
>>real calculaotr functions of the thing, you would have to reset the entire
>>ram. all of it would be gone. Then, to get back to the new os state, you
>>would have to reload everything from a computer, even an eii wouldnt help
>>you here becasue you would need a driver to recieve everything
>>
>>that means that you could play games 1st, 2nd, 3rd hour, but then during
>>math class, 4th hour, you swicth back to nomrla ti-os, and youd be stuck
>>like that until you got home, 5 hours later.
>>
>>This is unacceptable to most ppl, usually high school students in our
cass.
>>
>>All curent shells are made specifiically to deal with this problem: make
the
>>tios present and accessible,while allowing easy switching back to the asm
>>access shell.
>>
>>I also beg to differ on your point about the current shells not allowing
any
>>more of the TI-86 system resources than the ti-os does alone. For
instance,
>>only asm can do grayscale. the current shells can do anything the
>>programmers put in them. tO access more resources, the shell maker would
>>only need to put in routines to access them. It would not require you to
>>have an os that ignores the tios.
>>
>>Just my $45.35 worth.
>
>With CP/M, there are much more better math programs available. I have a
>IBM CP/M workstation. Even though its clocked at 1MHz, using math routines
>stored on 15" disks, it can do calculus routines much faster than the calc.
true, but the calc doesnt exaclty have a 15"disk drive :)
kaus
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