Flamage Re: [Coco] Nitros9 3.2.0 6809L2 on real hardware

[Robert Gault]

Ray Watts wrote:
 ><snip>
>   What can NitrOS-9 do the old
> CoCo couldn't?  It only does it faster.
> <snip>
Presumably you meant CoCo with stock OS-9?

That's analogous to saying what can a current model family sedan do that 
a model-T Ford couldn't do. There is more than a speed upgrade but that 
alone is worth the price as it runs much much faster. There is support 
for a 6309 CPU core with its new opcodes. There are corrections to bugs 
within the stock OS-9 both LevelI and LevelII. There are new or improved 
utilities.

Probably the most important factor in favor of NitrOS-9, as it is now 
being supplied and maintained by Boisy Pitre, over the stock OS-9 is we 
now have complete source code for all modules. That means improvements 
are possible at any time with minimal effort. It means that there is the 
equivalent of a tech support group for OS-9.