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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Single Application Operating System Post 302506380 by unt_engn on Sunday 20th of March 2011 12:17:59 PM
Old 03-20-2011
Single Application Operating System

I am going to start an ambitious project for my senior year of college. Just as the title says:
I want to write a single application operating system that is dedicated to running only one application and none other. I need to build a bare bones UNIX operating system that will use provided binary files to run an open source music production application.
I plan on working on this over the next year with my professors and I will continue to develop after I graduate.
I am open to any and all languages. What do you think would work best?

Why:
I have older laptops that are obsolete (512 MB RAM with 1.0 GB processors) and I would like to dedicate them to running only one application. These laptops have a hard time just running Windows XP which leaves no room for running ANY applications. I dont want all the useless user friendly mess that comes with todays operating systems. Why else? Because this seems hard, so why not?Smilie
How:
I want to work directly with or right above the assembly language and keep any high level programming to a minimum.Smilie I need the computer to boot straight into the application, ie: I turn it on and it automatically starts the one application and dedicates the entire computer to running it.
I'm not going to come straight out with my idea on how to do this, but I would like to see what all the wizards out there think of this.

USB 2.0 MUST WORK Smiliebut is not important at this stage.
 

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packxxk(1)						      General Commands Manual							packxxk(1)

NAME
packxxk - pack TI graphing calculator software files SYNOPSIS
packxxk [ -t type ] [ -d date ] [ -o xxkfile ] appfile ... DESCRIPTION
packxxk is a program to generate Flash Application and OS files for the Texas Instruments TI-73, TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, TI-89, and TI-92 Plus graphing calculators. The files generated are in the ``TIFL'' format used by recent versions of TI's GraphLink and TI-Connect soft- ware. The input file to packxxk must be in TI-Hex or TIFL format to begin with, and (in order for the application to be installed) it must have been digitally signed before being packed. packxxk does not do this, nor does it check for the presence of a signature. You can use rab- bitsign(1) to sign applications in several common formats. If multiple input files are specified, packxxk creates a multi-part TIFL file. OPTIONS -t type Specify the type of program (e.g., `8xk' for a TI-83 Plus application, or `73u' for a TI-73 operating system.) The default behavior is to infer the program type from the name of the input file. (If the input file does not have a recognized suffix, the type is guessed based on the contents of the program header.) -c id Manually specify the calculator device ID (e.g., 0x73 for the TI-83 Plus, or 0x74 for the TI-73.) -d [ month/day/year | day-month-year ] Manually specify the date stamp for the application. The default is to use the current date in the local time zone. -o xxkfile Specify the output file name (default is to write to standard output.) SEE ALSO
rabbitsign(1) AUTHOR
Benjamin Moody <floppusmaximus@users.sf.net> RabbitSign 2.0 July 2009 packxxk(1)
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