Nitros9 for the masses (was) Re: [Coco] COCO4 Emulator

[James Hrubik]

Yup, converts one by one.  BUT -- we need to hear from the important  
people on this -- the ones who maintain Nitros9.  Curtis, Boisy --  
what is YOUR opinion regarding a port of Nitros9 to the Intel  
chipset, ala Linux?



On May 7, 2006, at 11:12 AM, John Donaldson wrote:

> Alex,
>   What you said is all true. I forgot that the COCO3 could display  
> 16 colors, not 8. I kinda like the idea of porting NitrOS9 over to  
> the PC and let it be a real PC OS. This may be the best of both  
> worlds. It would allow a new hardware platform and allow use of  
> upgrades that are coming out for the PC's. The OS source could be  
> kep the the Net Dispostory so upgrades, changes, bug fixs and such  
> could quickly be implimented. We then have true 80 column screens,  
> all the colors we will ever need, speed would be determined by  
> which PC Process your using. You could then envoke the current  
> emulator programs to give backward compatiblity to the COCO2/3.  
> Just think Multi-View could become our verison of Windows.
>
> John Donaldson
>

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