New Planned z80 OS
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New Planned z80 OS
After this seemingly unattainable goal was revived by a certain Scavenger in a nearby community, the fire was lit up inside all of out hearts when an idea that could work was put forth.
There has been over 130 posts on this nearby community working out the details of what such OS could be like.
To maintain order and organization, a wiki has been created:
http://brazucs.unitedti.org/vera/
I invite you to join us in the development; it will be a community-wide project.
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Here's the basics of it:
- Much like Mozilla Firefox, the OS itself will be very basic and contain perhaps only three things: basic stuff that is needed for a calc, support for plugins, and perhaps support for coding libraries.
- Documentation on how to make plugins to enhance the OS will be published along with the OS.
- Community makes plugins.
There are many more details on this OS at the wiki (which, in case you have forgotten, can be found here).
Please join us in discussion about this at the wiki
-- Brazucs, Scavenger, Radical Pi, among many others who will contribute.
There has been over 130 posts on this nearby community working out the details of what such OS could be like.
To maintain order and organization, a wiki has been created:
http://brazucs.unitedti.org/vera/
I invite you to join us in the development; it will be a community-wide project.
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Here's the basics of it:
- Much like Mozilla Firefox, the OS itself will be very basic and contain perhaps only three things: basic stuff that is needed for a calc, support for plugins, and perhaps support for coding libraries.
- Documentation on how to make plugins to enhance the OS will be published along with the OS.
- Community makes plugins.
There are many more details on this OS at the wiki (which, in case you have forgotten, can be found here).
Please join us in discussion about this at the wiki
-- Brazucs, Scavenger, Radical Pi, among many others who will contribute.
Last edited by Brazucs on Mon 13 Feb, 2006 2:45 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Well, I added only two lines, then I got lost in the wiki, and started reading the thread at UTI But you're welcomeBrazucs wrote:Thanks for your ideas on the wiki, Timendus.
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Yes, I very much agree. I know you are intending on a lightweight OS, but I like the idea of plugins. Perhaps you could use Apps as these plugins, but within the OS allow Apps to integrate with the OS to a far greater degree than the TI-OS. This way you can have a lightweight base (think the linux base kernel) but be able to add on as extra features and functionality as you want (think mainstream linux distros). So say you start out with nothing more than a file browser, BASIC program executor, executor for nostub assembly programs, and the basic math functions. But then you could add in plugins for a BASIC editor, advanced math suites, office suites, a package of extra BASIC commands, the assembly API, Ion/Mirage compatibility, assembly dev suites, etc.
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