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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: critor on February 05, 2012, 03:13:23 pm
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In a previous news (http://ourl.ca/11758/222008), 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 (http://ourl.ca/14704), 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! ;D(http://www.omnimaga.org/Themes/default/images/gpbp_arrow_up.gif)
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
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Very nice critor :)
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hoohoo sexy
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Nice stuff critor again :)
Also I saw that other prototype on TI-Planet with no LCD
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is no boot screen
I just realised that Linever's a bot. Check all his posts. The sentences he writes are from previous post of other members, making him look kinda real. But just check his sig..
Maybe we should keep him for the heck of it. :)
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Ah, when I saw the topic title I thought it was talking about phoenix.raw. Now I can see where they got that name from!
Also it is interesting that Phoenix is used in many R&D development stages of things, eg: there was Phoenix, then Firebird, then Firefox.