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

[Frank Pittel]

Glen,

I ran into the same issue a few months ago when I managed to munge
the nitros-9 installation on CF card on my cloud9 interface. I asked
on this list for documentation written for the biggener and one of the
replies I got was a comment that since it was hard for him to learn
how to use it should be hard for me. He went on to add that when I
finally figured out how to use nitros that I would feel a greater
sense of accomplishment then if I could simply learn by reading
documentation.

Fortunatly Mark and Boisy didn't agree and gave me the information I
needed to get it working again.

Frank

PS - I did make some progress with the original documentation set for
OS9.


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:59:07AM -0600, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> 
> Thanks, That is the PDF I am muddling through now (the Ntros9.org), but it
> is a bit Dry and it is written (IMHO) toward people who are familiar with
> the original OS-9. Like I had said, I am following it, and doing the
> examples, but it just seems I am "using it" not really learning it from a
> newbie's point of view (please, this is not meant to slam the person who put
> in a lot of time to write it). John had summed it up quite nicely with his
> RS dos statement (whats next?). I am trying to get those books. I did get a
> hold of the book called "The OS-9 Guru- just the facts" but again, the
> author of that book assumes the reader is already familiar with OS-9 and is
> written for UNIX users.I will just keep going.
> -Glen
> 
> 
> There used to be a "Dummies Guide" when Tandy was selling the "Complete
> Rainbow Guide to -" but I doubt that those are now available. The
> NitrOS-9 project is trying to put together similar documentation but it
> is a big job. "Getting Started with NitrOS-9" and "the NitrOS-9 Level 2
> Windowing System" are currently available at http://nitros9.org/
> 
> More documentation can be seen in preliminary form by browsing the
> project at http://cvs.nitros9.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/docs/
> 
> 
> Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> >
> > Far be it for me to actually start a discution about this, But as a
> > newbe OS-9 and now Nitros-09, I am trying jsut to muddle through the
> > manuals and PDFs. I have not had much experence with "command line"
> > programs other than simple IBM Dos from my 486 days, then it was strait
> > into "Windows for workgroups 3.11".
> > My point (or question prehaps) is that Is there a "simple" guide or
> > toutorial for beginners to ether OS-9 or (better yet) Nitros 9? I mean i
> > just can't go and by "NitrOS 9 for Dummies" book at my local store.
> 
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