[Coco] CUBIX on the CoCo?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 30 Oct 2005 at 19:08, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

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Subject:        	Re: [Coco] CUBIX on the CoCo?
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> 

> On Oct 30, 2005, at 7:00 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> 

> > Dave

> >

> > First off thanks for the info. I was not sure but is did seem that

> > keyboard and video driver were specific to the board and user. You

> > essentially confirmed my suspicion. As far as I know, the standard

> > basic roms in the Coco3 do not use the SWI interrupt. I know that

> > OS9 does. I did see your use of the SWI instruction and as of now

> > see no issue to it.

> 

> Actually, OS-9 only hooks into the SWI2 vector.  Given that, I  

> believe it might be possible to do a port of CUBIX so that it  

> actually ran under NitrOS-9 Level 2 as a process.  The I/O routines 

> that need to be written could actually be written to invoke OS-9 I

> $Read/I$Write calls, and since each process gets its own 64K space on 

> a CoCo 3, this isn't as far fetched as it may sound.

> 

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I never thought of that. Cubix as a process of OS9. That might even be easier than 
a straight port to the Coco3. 

james


> I tend to agree with James; if one wanted to port CUBIX straight to 

> the CoCo, it would be easier on a CoCo 1/2 than on a CoCo 3. -- Boisy

> G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com "Monde, je suis pas venu ici pour vous

> faire de la peine."

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