In a
previous news, you could watch the TI-Nspire CAS+ P1-EVT2 from february 2006, which was the oldest Nspire prototype known to the Internet at that time, booting.
This prototype needed allmost 1min30s to be usable, as the whole OS was installed on each boot.
Today, let's focus on the TI-Phoenix 1 P1-EVT1 from january 2006.
As revealed in my
original news topic, it does boot in 2 steps like more recent Nspire, but...
- there is no boot screen, just a text console
- the Boot1 is not from TI: it's the U-Boot 1.1.2 under GPL
- the Boot2 does reinstall the whole OS on each boot
- the OS let you use the DataLight shell on RS232
Watch the TI-Phoenix 1 booting for the 1st time in your life today!
Only something like 30secs and you can use it. Much better than the P1-EVT2 which allmost needed 1min30s.
And moreover, it doesn't crash when you try to turn it off: it just stays on!
More information / images linked from the TI-Planet news:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=120378#p120378
