[Coco] New upload to clubltdstudios.com

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 22 Aug 2007 at 8:53, Bob Devries wrote:

> Hi Joel,
> 
> The problem with the Atari port of OS-9 is that it relies heavily on
> the Atari ROM-based GEMDOS environment, which is different from the
> Coco OS-9, which uses none of the ROM code.
> 
> To "separate" the OS-9 part from the GEMDOS part would, I think, be a
> major undertaking.
> 
> As far as I know, OS-9/68K was written in C, so reverse engineering it
> would be painful.
> 
>
It was my understanding that the very early version of OS9 for the 68000 was done in 
assembly. I seem to remember some comments that the early passes used XLATE09 to 
translate 6809 code to 68000 code and then from there. 

Later versions were written in C.

Though I maybe wrong

james