Makes 'em look coolerkalan_vod wrote:And why is it that you guys call it OS?
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Makes 'em look coolerkalan_vod wrote:And why is it that you guys call it OS?
timendus...please offer suggestions, not critisings. Like what do you think would improve it instead of just attacking it while plugging your api. Personaly, I think my calc would do well to have a Windows on top of its dos, as the dos is not so freindly to work with. I say go for it kerm.Timendus wrote:Like... what?KermMartian wrote:And since I'll be able to make the libraries bcalls, I won't have to worry about all the implicit problems that RAM-based libraries cause.
Please tell me how you can see a 6 Mhz 32K ram device with a two colour display as a PDA? The average cell phone has more CPU power and far better graphics. You can't properly view documents on that screen, let alone graphics. It has hardly any connectivity options, apart from the limited link port. You know, there's a reason why Win 3.11 wasn't built for 8086 computers, and that's because their hardware wasn't worth it. Our calculators aren't "worth" a Windows like look'n'feel, mainly because the display is just way too crappy, and Windows style use doesn't fit it. Do you see a Start button and a taskbar on your mobile phone?Ah, excellent question. OK, I try to think of TI graphing calculators not as primarily a calculator, secondarily a feature-poor gaming device; I think of them more as a device with a low-level OS (kinda like DOS) that other stuff can and should be built on top of to make them more user-friendly (like win9x). I feel that people should be able to use this $90 computing device as a full-featured handheld device, dare I say PDA?
I hardly even mentioned the API in this thread, how can you call that plugging?necro wrote:timendus...please offer suggestions, not critisings. Like what do you think would improve it instead of just attacking it while plugging your api. Personaly, I think my calc would do well to have a Windows on top of its dos, as the dos is not so freindly to work with. I say go for it kerm.
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I am not jumping on timendus, I am just asking why he hasn't posted a single feature idea/change. He has said what he dislikes and then didn't offer anything specific that he thinks it could benifit from.