Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a decade or so, there was a time when Texas Instruments was a major force in the…
  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    This version of UNIX is called UNIX99 and is the brainchild of AtariAge forum member [mrvan] who originally wasn’t looking to develop a full operating system for this computer but rather a set of standard C libraries to help with other projects. Apparently the step from that to a UNIX-flavored OS wasn’t too big so this project was born. While the operating system doesn’t have a UNIX certification, it has most of the tools any of us would recognize on similar machines. The OS has support for most of the TI-99 hardware, file management, a basic user account system, and a command shell through which scripts can be written and executed.

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    This was my very first computer when I was really young. I learned BASIC on that beast, and used it to make my sister cry.

    10 PRINT "Amy is a pest"
20 GOTO 10