Unix-like operating system for the TI-89 and TI-92+ graphing calculators.

Post by peter_l_downs » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 1:27 PM UTC

tjoff wrote: post #16

fiatmoney wrote: post #3

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With straight calculators, I don't know if there's a whole lot better for them to get than the 89. For anything more advanced than the built in computer algebra system and BASIC can handle (which goes quite a way, the CAS is really pretty good), you'd likely want to do on a "real" computer anyway, strictly for interface (screen and keyboard) reasons.

While I agree that I've never really felt that limited by the 89 for something that I wanted to do on a calculator anyway, but the price is absolutely ridiculous. The prices on calculators have barely dropped anything the last 10 years (and the calculators themselves have barely adopted either, you still get 32 KB of ram on the lower end (that still cost > $100)) and if it weren't for schools requiring them I have a…

Post by loeg » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 5:28 PM UTC

caladri wrote: post #18

loeg wrote: post #13

Last release was 13 months ago; if you follow the Ti calculator community ( http://www.ticalc.org/ ) you'll know this is fairly old news.

The blog, which others have mentioned and which is prominently-linked on the Sourceforge site ( http://punix-os.blogspot.com/ ), would suggest that there is new news, and it's fairly significant. It has actually been run on real hardware rather than in-simulator, it would seem. I find it not a little jarring that the kernel has been pasted together from code from other systems, not just inspired by code from other sy…