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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2010, 11:09:01 am »
Quote from: Galandros 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

25) It wouldn't even natively support color. You'd have to write programs to make it display colors.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #16 on: June 23, 2010, 02:13:14 pm »
26) It would be a major pain to send files from a computer to another, especially on the 64-bit version of the OS. Most USB transfer attempts would take 10 secs to startup at all and often fail.
27) If the OS supports sound, on some sound cards, when attempting #26, in some rare occasions, sound would totally stop working on your computer. You would need to reboot to fix it. (Note, TI-Connect sometimes did that to me on Windows XP)
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #17 on: June 23, 2010, 03:20:49 pm »
28) The OS would only be used to emulate another (older) OS, with crappy USB drivers and loss of support for some of the previous commands.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #18 on: June 23, 2010, 05:28:56 pm »
29.) The screen would become distorted when running older programs.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2010, 05:34:06 pm »
30.) Newer versions could only access the first 3/8 of RAM.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2010, 05:47:23 pm »
31) you would have to poll each key to see if it was pressed
32) random commands that do nothing useful must be added.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2010, 05:50:29 pm »
33) Only the arrow keys and the Delete key would repeat if held.
34) Natively, it would only support mouse movement via the arrow keys, and in order to use a real mouse, you'd have to do a hardware mod.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #22 on: June 23, 2010, 05:50:44 pm »
35) The power button looks like just another key on the keyboard
36) The power button can force quit programs written in the OS shell script
37) With any other program, there is no way to quit it if it errs
38) There is no multitasking, nor libraries, nor memory protection.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2010, 05:52:42 pm »
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #24 on: June 23, 2010, 05:53:47 pm »
40) The monitor is an analog TV (following 39)
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2010, 05:54:43 pm »
41) It would only support one font set, and you would have to write a program to *temporarily* replace it.
« Last Edit: June 23, 2010, 05:55:28 pm by FinaleTI »
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2010, 07:52:25 pm »
42:It would only have one USB port.

43:You would have to buy an adapter to play music and plug in flashdrives

44:A special key combination can disable applications and programs
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #27 on: June 23, 2010, 07:58:02 pm »
45: Its only built in language has massive slowdowns, memory leaks, and glitches
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #28 on: June 23, 2010, 09:24:14 pm »
46) It would display binary as tokens instead of using base 2 numbering.
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Re: If TI Made a PC OS...
« Reply #29 on: June 23, 2010, 09:34:33 pm »
47: some of the keys would be tacky-ly different from the rest and bound to opening certain features
48: it can only be powered by AAA batteries
49: you can't transfer files if the batteries are low
50: it takes up the entire screen to display a simple message like "Your batteries are low. Recommend change of batteries."
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