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 4:58 PM
Subject: 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. :)
>
How much do the disks hold?
8k???
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