[Coco] OS-9 device descriptor list
    Willard Goosey 
    goosey at virgo.sdc.org
       
    Sat Jan  8 16:05:08 EST 2011
    
    
  
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 05:50:44AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> 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.
Well, my list isn't really about *drivers*, nor is it about every
possible piece of hardware that's ever been wired into a CoCo, it's
about *device descriptor modules*.  Until joydrv_*.sb grow /J0 and /J1
descriptors they don't count for this list.  
The Complete List of OS-9 Device Drivers is a different list, and I'll
leave it for someone else to obsess over.  For one thing, there'll be
a lot more name duplication there -- for instance, both Tandy and
LR-Tech hard-drive drivers are simply HDISK.
Willard
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