Re: TI-H: TI-89

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Subject: Re: TI-H: TI-89
From: "Brook Elliot" <sysadmin@bridges.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:19:22 -0800
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Why not just port Linux  - Microkernel? Linux is ported to 68k allready, and
runs on Amigas/Atari's. This would be an excellent port, with no copyright
infrigement to worry about.

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Friday, March 20, 1998 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: TI-89


>
>>With this new flash technology, as I understand it, it is possible to put
a
>>new OS onto the chip.  With 1 meg of space on it, why not put a modified
>>MacOS?  When I say modified, I mean, moving the command keys around, and
>>pointing the ADB port out the link port (we'd have to supply power
>>seperatly.)
> the ass-92 list would kill you if they heard you said that!
>
>It would work, but we need to decompile MacOS v3.3 or lower and decompile
>the ROM to find the needed toolbox roms then recode the thing and hope
>Apple doesn't press charges...  :)
>
>

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