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
But the calcs internal SRAM holds about 4 of the disk images. :)
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