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Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators

Posted by timothy on 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."

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  1. Cool.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    but can you still calculate stuff with it?

    1. Re:Cool.. by Ignominious+Cow+Herd · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know about calculate, but apparently the site is being run on a Beowulf cluster of 2000 of the little suckers.

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  2. What does this really mean? by spin2cool · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

  3. Now for the next port... by anothy · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...when can i expect it for my TI 99/4A?

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  4. Re:MOD PARENT FUNNY! by brian728s · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stop generalizing posts with 'insensitive clod' in it, you insensitive clod!

  5. Karma whore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    In case it gets Slashdotted, here's a copy of the article:

    Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators
    Operating Systems
    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."

  6. I'm looking for a new OS ... by BrentRJones · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...for my slide rule.

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  7. Emulator by eap · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  8. What calculator? by fdawg · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."

  9. I don't mean to bash Open Source or anything but by Meowfaceman · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!"

  10. Re:can ti do the proof for 11^2+12^2=13^2 by fi-greenie · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.