Author Topic: DevOS v0.x (Read 16442 times)

necro · « **Reply #30 on:** May 13, 2007, 01:46:00 pm »

o.o

...sounds...like...crazy? What kind of college gives out money? More importantly, how do you not use a mouse,keyboard or speakers...and more importantly, why would you?

JincS · « **Reply #31 on:** May 13, 2007, 07:47:00 pm »

The college gets most of the funding from 3rd-party companies (Microsoft, Intel, etc.) to help students with their projects. As for the mouse/keyboard/speakers: I'm working on setting up a hardware division to help me build my hardware designs:

1.) A wireless glove that will use motion sensors + fiber optics to emulate the mouse and keyboard.

2.) A wireless headset that has a built-in LCD screen that is specially designed to fill all of the eye's vision area (to give the feel of a room-sized monitor), but can be switched from a regular monitor (fully opague) to semi-transparent, so you can see things through them like a pair of sunglasses.

Fun schtuff, but I need to find a micro-circuitry lab that I can use to make the LCD screen. That'll be the hard part. The rest will be pie.

Halifax · « **Reply #32 on:** May 14, 2007, 09:04:00 am »

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QUOTE (KermMartian @ 10 Apr, 2007, 23:33)

Dude, do you have any idea how unrealistic this is? Good idea, though, way to be a visionary.

Obviously you don't know the power that JincS holds when it comes to programming. I wouldn't seriously even considering doubting that he would be able to do this because I think he can.

Also yes I want to be a beta tester.

Oh yeah and what is all that funding for this OS???

JincS · « **Reply #33 on:** May 14, 2007, 09:53:00 am »

The funding is going into developing the hardware and software that goes with the OS (mostly the hardware, that's the spendy part). The OS itself isn't the important part: it's just a frontend that will be optimized to handle the new devices and software (to show the world what they're really capable of). I would use a pre-existing OS, except for these reasons:

Windoze = too bulky, too slow (even on the fastest machines), personal grudge against Microsoft's marketing strategies
Linux = The kernel just couldn't handle it :cry:
Unix = Great for server stuff, but isn't designed for this sort of thing

Macs = They just suck

I'm just designing the OS to utilize the CPU and RAM (along with virtual memory emulated on the hard drive) to their fullest extent (which will entail creating a new memory mapping scheme that will allow the OS to run 100% separate from all software not affiliated with the system [so that there's no possible chance of crashing the system and ruining any of the hardware]).

Halifax · « **Reply #34 on:** May 14, 2007, 10:30:00 am »

Yo that's so awesome I didn't know you were making all this hardware stuff. I have been looking into getting into hardware so I could make some cool stuff for the calculator and mod it out and stuff.

JincS · « **Reply #35 on:** May 15, 2007, 04:28:00 am »

I gave up on trying to learn calc mods. I haven't been able to find any way that it would benefit me in the real world (not to mention I hardly use my calc at all anymore).

necro · « **Reply #36 on:** May 15, 2007, 04:33:00 pm »

necro wonders if microsoft and apple, if the idea pans out, would just make their own versions with the huge market share and resources behind them.

dinhotheone · « **Reply #37 on:** May 16, 2007, 01:59:00 pm »

that sounds so awesome and its pretty funny how you post this on a smaller website like this, like what your trying to do isnt extrordinary.

"I'm just designing the OS to utilize the CPU and RAM (along with virtual memory emulated on the hard drive) to their fullest extent"
oh good, as long as your just doing that then its no big deal

you are amazing

Fallen Ghost · « **Reply #38 on:** May 16, 2007, 02:24:00 pm »

Never found this topic before, but it is definitely a great, no extremely great good best idea. If you ever make it and don't get eaten in 10 mins by microsoft, then you'll become very famous/the next Bill Gates! Nice, continue up your great work, I really hope it will work.

Don't get eaten by big companies in need of profit...

JincS · « **Reply #39 on:** May 17, 2007, 05:39:00 am »

Nope. Pattents, trademarks, copyrights, lawyers, etc. If anything, Intel will have a better shot of getting my project than anyone.

But I don't intend on selling out

Halifax · « **Reply #40 on:** May 17, 2007, 08:18:00 am »

That's good JincS cause I really don't like people who sell out. Well I would still like you if you did, but that's a different story

. I hope you stay in the TI community even when you become a Bill Gates, but then I guess you could make your own calc and have your own community haha

JincS · « **Reply #41 on:** May 17, 2007, 09:09:00 am »

Yeah, I'll probably stick around for awhile and try to learn calc programming.

BTW, any news on z8-GCC? I haven't had time to work on it in quite awhile now (work + school = no time for sleep)

Halifax · « **Reply #42 on:** May 17, 2007, 03:31:00 pm »

Yeah 'as' is working fine and I am working on getting 'ld' to link multiple object files that 'as' produces and stuff. It shouldn't be too harsh. The GCC backend will be the most harsh.

JincS · « **Reply #43 on:** May 18, 2007, 10:34:00 am »

Yeah, that'll be the hard part.

I put my two-weeks in at work, so I should have a bit of free time to get to work on that here soon (a bit: I'll be moving soon, so I'll probably take a coupla weeks off from it then).

Author Topic: DevOS v0.x (Read 16442 times)

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