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Old 02-16-2006, 05:11 PM   #14 (permalink)
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The TI83 does not run any kind of x86 processor.

It would be a custom Texas Instruments processor that is probably a special purpose mathematics processor. It would not be a general purpose processor like the x86.

I don't think you could really call anything that ran on a TI83 calculator an "OS" in any sense of the term. Its more like a shell.
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