Punix

Quote from: Lionel Debroux on 08 March, 2012, 20:36:09

The initial timer value you set to 600017 might be off by one, because:

$ bc
bc 1.06.95
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8192*2/3
5461

bc? You heathen! dc is the One True Calculator! Tongue

It's possible that I set the value off by one, but I don't think it's likely. I set the timer value to the maximum, 255, so the interrupt should fire every other time the timer increments, ie, 16384/2 = 8192. It does so in TiEmu.

I think OSC2 (the base oscillator for int1, int3, and int5) is just running slow because my real-time clock (which is incremented in int3) is running slow, at about 72% of real time. I estimate it's 72% (my previous estimate was 67%) because I left Punix running for almost 9 hours today at work, but only 6.5 hours elapsed in Punix-land. Int1 and int3 are synchronized with each other (int1 running at 1/256 the rate of int3), so int5 must be synchronized too. I think I can live with the slow clock since I am already planning to add support for adjusting the real-time clock frequency (ie, by adding slightly more than 1 second each int3).

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There's also a little issue with the screen not shutting off when I turn off the calculator, but that should be easily fixable.

The screen status bit is 60001D:4 on HW1 (on HW2, it's a bit for the contrast...), 70001D:1 on HW2.

I'll look into my poweroff routine to make sure I'm setting/clearing the right bits.

Quote from: jimbauwens on 08 March, 2012, 21:04:08

Very nice progress!
Really makes me want to install this on my 92+

Also, is the top that is running a direct port, or did you modify/make your own?

Thanks! It's not ready to use for real yet (for one, there's no filesystem in this version).

I wrote my own top program. It's really simple, though: it doesn't attempt to minimize writes to the screen by printing only differences between updates (as some versions appear to do), and it doesn't put the terminal into non-canonical input mode (so you have to type ENTER or ctrl-D before top will read user input). Also, different *nix systems have different ways to access information about the system and about individual processes, and I chose to follow the FreeBSD conventions here (ie, using the sysctl syscall).

DJ_O: It should run on the TI-89 (but not the Titanium) since the hardware is almost identical to the TI-92+, and it works just as well in TiEmu. If anyone wants to donate a TI-89 to me for testing, I'll gladly accept it.

Otherwise I'll just have to buy one myself.