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Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators
nicklaszlo writes "TICalc.org announced yesterday that Patrick Pelisier has released a new beta OS, called PedroM, for the TI-89 and TI-92+ under the General Public License. Here is the source and binary. This is the first time a TI calculator has been free of proprietary software. The OS has 32 commands and backward compatibility for assembly programs. You can get a Windows/PC emulator of both calculators, for those who don't have either calculator, or don't want to risk their real system."
but can you still calculate stuff with it?
It means that math class will never be the same.
We'll have progressed from playing single player tetris through Zshell to playing multiplayer doom over a WiFi nwetwork. (in the back of Algebra class, of course).
...when can i expect it for my TI 99/4A?
i speak for myself and those who like what i say.
Now I can spend even more time not learning math while my parents bitch about my grades.
Stop generalizing posts with 'insensitive clod' in it, you insensitive clod!
In case it gets Slashdotted, here's a copy of the article:
Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators
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Posted by timothy on Sunday December 14, @04:53PM
from the smallness dept.
nicklaszlo writes "TICalc.org announced yesterday that Patrick Pelisier has released a new beta OS, called PedroM, for the TI-89 and TI-92+ under the General Public License. Here is the source and binary. This is the first time a TI calculator has been free of proprietary software. The OS has 32 commands and backward compatibility for assembly programs. You can get a Windows/PC emulator of both calculators, for those who don't have either calculator, or don't want to risk their real system."
...for my slide rule.
Help end the use of Sigs. Tomorrow
They are also working on a TI Calculator emulator for the new O/S. It will allow you to emulate a TI calculator right on your own calculator!
Actually, I'm just bored and wanted something to do...
Actio personalis moritur cum persona. (Dead men don't sue)
"Can I borrow your calculator?"
"Oh, its not a calculator. Its now a portable computer."
"Can it minimize this equation for me?"
"No"
"What can it do?"
"Well....it has a console...and it can add/subtract/multiply....."
"Nevermind."
While I think the idea is cool as far as an open source theme goes...
I see this as potentially a bad idea, as this might provide a segue into Spam...
So now when I sit in my PDE's class, my calculator will be bugging me about getting my penis size enlarged.
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
As a 15-18 year-old
Does that make you minus 3 years old?
IT'S A FREAKING CALCULATOR. Do you REALLY need an open source operating system for a calculator? Was it's proprietary operating system ever really in question? Why, I remember the days, when I said to myself, "DAMNED BE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS! They'll rue the day! Their calculator hardware only runs their own operating system! It's a monopoly, I say!"
Holy shit! I've had my TI-89 for a year and still can't type more than 5-10WPM! (I did buy the external keyboard, though)
-MrM
Sure it can!
Unfortunately, you won't be available to see it, because the calculator will print this;
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this screen is too small to contain.