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Lead dev and project founder of KnightOS here. Nice to see it on HN again :) Happy to answer questions.
by ddevault 11y ago
Lead dev and project founder of KnightOS here. Nice to see it on HN again :)
Happy to answer questions.
- zokier 11y agoDo you see some practical benefits of KnightOS or is it more just because we can and its fun? I mean is KnightOS equipped calculator really useful/convenient for something that vanilla TI is not? In contrast the other open calculator project I know, WP34s, aims to create the best HP style calculator they can based on HP HW. Is your aspiration similarly to make a really good TI style calculator?
- ddevault 11y agoWell, from a design and usability perspective, KnightOS is much more sophisticated. It supports multitasking and has a package manager and so on. That being said, there is poor support for math (yeah, really). I want to polish that up until it's suitable for classroom use, and then use it as a platform for promoting open source in schools and getting kids interested in programming/hacking in school. KnightOS is basically a Unix system, so it'd be nice to help bring those concepts into the hands of student tinkerers.