[Coco] Why DECB is important to OS-9 folk.

[Willard Goosey]

>From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at MindSpring.com>

>Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:21:36 -0700



>Considering the files that appeared on Delphi and CompuServe which are on

>RTSI.


I don't know about Delphi and CompuServe, never used them.  Most of
the files that were on the Internet are either on RTSI or in the
Princeton archive on maltedmedia.  



>Yes. If a DECB person saw an ERROR 190 they would not understand.


Compared to ST? ERROR?  DECB's error messages aren't a lot more
understandable.  I've had a CoCo more than half my life, and I still
have to look up error messages.


>I am thinking about a new two parts. A new shell and a program that handles

>the DECB running of programs. That program would be mainly for the DECB

>folk, but it is mostly done already.


You may wish to investigate the possibility of porting Bywater BASIC
to OS9.  It's in C, can run on CP/M, and should be fairly portable.
Older versions, at least, could be compiled with a K&R compiler.  It
may be what you're looking for.



Willard
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