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If TI Made a PC OS...
« on: June 22, 2010, 01:46:06 pm »
It would only store in RAM and require users to manually move things to their HDD
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2010, 01:50:03 pm »
Caps lock would be always on.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2010, 01:50:36 pm »
3rd party code would not be allowed.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2010, 01:50:55 pm »
lol XD

4- the OS would take 10x more space than 7, XP and vista combined together (I mean, OS 2.0.1 takes more than half of my Nspire memory x.x)
5- if you installed older versions of their OS on new comp hardware, the screen of the monitor would no longer display any content if turned off then back on, until next computer reboot
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2010, 01:51:58 pm »
6 - It would come pre-installed with financial software that you couldn't uninstall.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2010, 01:53:58 pm »
7 - It would not really shut down, just turn off the monitor and pretend to be off
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2010, 02:05:37 pm »
8 - It would frequently crash, making it lose all your files, because of a weird manipulation.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2010, 02:06:33 pm »
9 - Later versions would not be able to use the last half of your RAM
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2010, 02:20:45 pm »
10 - You'd have to use TI custom devices, including a crappy LCD.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2010, 01:22:57 am »
11 - When we attempt at unlocking the OS to third party dev, TI would release a patch fixing that hole every update
12 - It would be slow as hell, even more than Vi$ta
13 - Older versions of their OS would be made so they won't install/work well as much as possible on newer computer hardware. It would check the amount of RAM, the video card kind and other stuff, and if it's not listed, then installing would abort.
14 - Using certain external USB devices like harddrives or DVD players could potentially fry your computer. (This happened to Mic's TI-Nspire on TI-BANK when he tried OS 2.0, I believe)
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2010, 05:06:48 am »
15- It would be epic fail
16- The OS must have bugs
17- It would have stupid C code and even weirder hand written x86 assembly
18- would not support multitasking on old CPUs without threads or multiple cores, more than 8-bit sound or colour graphics
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2010, 07:07:55 am »
19) you can only develop software in TI BASIC. with Line() being your most intensive graphics command
20) the one thing you're confident about the OS is that it can at least do math.
21) other than that though... you're out of luck
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2010, 10:10:12 am »
22) All your programs would be split into Applications and Programs, even though they would be run the same way.  And applications would all be sized in multiples of 4,294,967,295 bytes.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2010, 11:05:25 am »
23) TI would have used about 80% code from another OS to make their own.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2010, 11:08:20 am »
24) It would be possible to put the LCD into Test Mode and turn it blue. :P
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