[Coco] OS-9 device descriptor list

[gene heskett]

On Saturday, January 08, 2011 05:43:31 am Willard Goosey did opine:

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 01:07:01AM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > There are rumors that /Yx has been spotted in the wild, sitting in
> > between remote file systems such as FTP sites or the local disks of a
> > drivewire server and what OS9 thinks is a regular RBF device.
> 
> Nice! Noted.
> 
> People have actually been very good about device names over the
> years.  Deliberate collisions seem rare. (except for /P, but the
> bitbanger port has never gotten any respect. *)  If the Glenside IDE
> drivers ever escape "beta" the /T "test" descriptors should go away.
> It's not like they're needed.
> 
> *Plus, since Drivewire ties up the hardware you couldn't have
>  bitbanger /P and drivewire at the same time, anyway!
> 
> I know I'm still missing some devices, though.  Maybe this will jar
> some memories loose.
> 
> Willard

Picking nits here, but some of the current .sb modules could be called 
device drivers, like joydrv_6551.sb, which handles the translation between 
a serial mouse and nitros9.

/WP/Wecho/WPdrv needs the now abandoned c080.dr module to complete that 
dual monitor function.  I ran dual monitors on mine for years & years.  
Very handy.  I still have all the hardware to do it, including a 13" amber 
screen.

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