[Coco] [Color Computer] Nitros9 Boot file

[Robert Gault]

Robert Gault wrote:
> Mark Marlette wrote:
> 
>>Jim,
>>
>>Good work. Raises a question....
>>
>>Boisy - Is the bootfile allowed to be fragmented. I know we talked  
>>about it.????
>>
>>Mark
>>www.cloud9tech.com
> 
>  ><snip>
> 
> Standard OS-9 requires a contiguous os9boot file on disk. I think the 
> next release of NitrOS-9 will not. However, the disk requirement may not 
> follow over to memory.
> 
> MDIR -e reports all modules in the boot file being contiguous in memory. 
> A third party program DIRM indicates that the descriptors are not 
> contiguous with the rest of the os9boot modules but in block $3F.
> 
I should clarify the above. The specific descriptors are term and all 
the windows. The other descriptors are reported by dirm as staying with 
the main group.

> Whichever is correct, I happen to have a NitrOS-9 boot file of $854C 
> bytes which works with NitrOS-9 (Gale Force Enterprises) prior to our 
> current project. This is larger than what Jim is reporting.
>