[Coco] The Mark Twain of operating systems...

[haywire666 at aol.com]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Yes it was just thinking out loud. I think trying to translate 6809/6309 assembly into c would
take a monumental effort and thats not likely to happen. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 1:16 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] The Mark Twain of operating systems...


There is one major problem with any attempt to port or translate
NitrOS9 to a more modern platform..  doing anything that can remotely
be seen to compete in a current marketplace calls attention to things
that we all like very much to have for our CoCos but that probably
cannot go on existing if they are given a lot of attention.  So... not
to stir the soup but I think this type of thing should be very
carefully considered if such an idea goes beyond the pipe dream phase.


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:01 AM, haywire666 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> I wish someone would port nitros09 to x86, or better yet... ARM.
>> Small, lightweight, effecient, it would be an excellent netbook os also I 
think.
>
> I wonder if there would be any purpose of taking the 6309 NitrOS-9 and 
recreating it in C, as an app that could run on top of other OS's for playing 
with, or as something that could run AS an OS (much more work at that level for 
drivers, etc.).
>
> That's pretty much how OS-9000 (today known as OS-9 for XXX) came to be, as a 
Portable OS-9 that could be targeted easily to new architectures...
>
>                -- Allen
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