[Coco] Play with NitrOS-9 over the Internet

[Frank Pittel]

Sounds like we should start expecting a new release of NitrOS-9 between now and
the cocofest!!

I may be talking out of turn but it would be nice to see a demonstration of the
new capablities of drivewire! I'd like to congratulate everyone involved. This is
an exciting time for the coco community!


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:49:29PM -0600, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> For those following this thread...
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> The CoCo 3 here at Lab South is now running NitrOS-9 Level 2 "headless" as in no VTIO driver, grfdrv or window descriptors.  Term is actually the scdwt /T1 descriptor.  This allows for a smaller bootfile, and conceivably we could shrink things down enough to run NitrOS-9 like this on a 128K CoCo 3 (albeit with less tsmons running).  The advantage of running headless of course is that there is one less peripheral to hook up to (namely the monitor).
> 
> One interesting side effect of this: we discovered that if a bootfile is too small the system will crash while booting.  This is certainly an interesting side effect of trying to shrink the bootfile, and I will be doing tests to narrow this down.
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