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[Mark Marlette]

George,

Hard to argue with Robert's logic.

My logic is this.....Why run a 20yr old OS? Pole vault twenty years forward.

Not sure if you are hard drive based or not but we boot from a powered  
off condition to NitrOS-9 on the SuperIDE in ~4 seconds.

Never the less, it is all fun!!! Nice job!!!

Mark

Quoting George Ramsower <georgeramsower at gmail.com>:

>
> OS-9 Level 2. With patches accumilated over the years.
> I've been thinking of installing a 6309 into that machine and
> converting to Nitros9. Does thinking about it count?
> I really don't think NitrOS-9 will make enough difference to account
> for the effort. However, it would be an interesting experiment.
>
>
> From: "Mark Marlette"
>> George,
>>
>> Are you running OS-9 Level 2 or NitrOS-9 Level2?
>>
>> Mark
>> Cloud-9
>>
>> At 2/20/2008 11:29 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> I just finished a test with Basic09.
>>>
>>> The book says that if you "pack" a program, it will run faster.
>>>
>>> NOT!
>>>
>>>
>>> I ran a series of four routines to move all three axis back to the
>>> home position. One calls upon the other three.
>>>
>>> Running the same routine from Basic09, it took 2:41 (minutes/seconds)
>>> Running the same routine with a "Packed" procedure, it took 2:41
>>> (minutes/seconds)
>>>
>>> I can see the advantage of having it packed into a procedure if RunB
>>> and the procedure is in memory and it will be called upon often.
>>> However, for development purposes, there is no advantage in packing
>>> this stuff. It goes no faster if packed.
>>>
>>> Bummer.
>>>
>>> I've also learned that the multitasking in OS-9 is not what it
>>> purports to be.  If I run procedures in more than one window, it
>>> does each one in about 1/5 second increments. Maybe more time on
>>> each one. I'll have to test this accurately to see what it really
>>> does, I'm only guessing right now.
>>>
>>> I still love this OS and I would't trade it for the world!
>>>
>>> I can see that usiing interupts is the way to go for REAL multitasking.
>>>
>>> Alas, Basic09 is my thing and I will have to live with it until I
>>> have time to learn assembly language. But for now, I'm really busy
>>> making this CNC machine do what I need. Learning assembly would
>>> totally shut down the progress on this CNC machine until I learn how
>>> to do a new programming language. So, Basic09 it is.
>>>
>>> Another bummer.
>>>
>>> So far, I'm really pleased with how this thing is working. Accuracy
>>> is as I wanted, repeatability is EXACTLY what I wanted and the thing
>>> really looks good.
>>> Soon, I'll have to take it apart and paint it. Yet another bummer.
>>> However, it must happen...  I think.
>>> I'm not so sure I need to do that. WD-40 will protect it and it will
>>> always be indoors. The steel parts are only in the frame work and
>>> the imortant parts are either stainless, aluminum or brass. So,
>>> perhaps it's okay the way it is.
>>>
>>> I'll post the generic programs to operate this thing to the website
>>> when I get a chance.
>>> Meanwhile..
>>> www.coco.thetinbox.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> George
>>>
>>>
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