Regular Nspire: won it at ARML
Touchpad Nspire CAS: the same
I also used to have an 84+SE, purchased, but its gone now

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Do I see grayscale in the game? o.o

goto has its legitimate uses, though, such as escaping from multiple nested loops in a simple fashion.

Or both?

Hmmm...if the bugs are all squashed now, mind posting an update?

Quote from: graphmastur on August 08, 2010, 10:30:16 am

Excellent. Please post your ideas. I really think we should do wifi.  Also, I'm reading up on arm asm for the os. Albert, are you going to be the head of arm hardware or software? I personally don't want linux and would rather create my own os. How much experience do you have with hardware vs. Firmware

I'll probably be the ARM software head, but remember that head position isn't just limited to one person. I think bwang also should join the team. He's also pretty good with Linux.

Hardware? I love looking at the hardware, but when it comes to making decisions, assembling it, designing, etc., I'm not the one to ask. calc84 and maybe some others can be heads for this one, since they know what they're doing.

As for you.... IF you really want to design a OS from scratch in ARM, you really have to exceed Linux. Good hardware support, multitasking, efficient memory management, GUI, and easy development are key things to a good OS.
I just think Linux can already do those tasks, and really reduce development time. We're not putting the whole Ubuntu system into the calc. We're starting with Angstrom Linux, which is pretty much barebone, and then adding stuff on it to create the calc.

ARM ASM is magnitudes harder than Z80. It's pretty much like x86: a least 10,000 lines of code to get it up and running - a simple terminal, that is. Not mentioning that the Nspire uses a toolkit to build upon.

Anyway, it's your choice. Me and bwang will probably get started with the Linux development as soon as the hardware is finalized. If you want to, you can get a head start on the OS. Candidates for hardware include the ARM PrimeCell PL110, which is an LCD controller chip, and calc84 mentioned the LPC313x ARM core.

Quote from: matthias1992 on August 08, 2010, 10:48:06 am

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Excellent. Please post your ideas. I really think we should do wifi.  Also, I'm reading up on arm asm for the os. Albert, are you going to be the head of arm hardware or software? I personally don't want linux and would rather create my own os. How much experience do you have with hardware vs. Firmware

Hmm well I do recommend using a linux like kernel though, it's very powerful. But indeed linux can be confusing and we want a easy GUi, so let's use the power of the linux kernel but the ease of use say, windows. Altough most programmers hate it you gotta say its quite easy to use. That is until the errors kick in.

Oh yes, that's definitely the plan. Linux is a very solid base to work on. Of course, no student will ever see a terminal. (We won't kill the terminal, but we won't show it either. ) All the guts of Linux will be hidden with a very useful. pretty GUI. Programming isn't that hard. I guess you could complain about GTK and such, but wxWidgets and QT are also very solid UI frameworks.

Ease of Windows + Linux core = Decent OS

I'd be glad to help with the Linux distribution once we get the hardware up and running. I too think we are best off using a Linux kernel with our own UI. Remember, Linux is very modular - the OS and the GUI are completely separate. It's much easier to write an UI then to write an OS. Of course, if enterprising people want to give a custom OS a shot, no one is stopping you