[Coco] apparently an incomplete errmsg file

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 16 October 2012 22:36:41 Retro Canada did opine:

> CoWin is for mutivue. It will eat up all your memory :P
> 
> Use Cogrf instead.

At one point, about a year ago, I was running multivue, but just long 
enough to see exactly how 1970's & crappy it looked after one of the vga 
adapters got through with it.  Almost too ugly to keep feeding it, and I 
had forgotten that little detail, probably due to oldtimers.  Next time I 
do a lvl2 boot disk I'll swap them & see if that leaves me enough sysram to 
format a floppy.

Thanks for the reminder.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 October 2012 21:48:29 Aaron Wolfe did opine:
> >> Take this with a grain of salt as it's been a while...also i'm trying
> >> to use some ascii art so fixed width will make this look
> >> normal-er-ishy.
> >> 
> >> I think you'll have this structure:
> >>         dw3
> >>       
> >>       /  |  \
> >>      
> >>      /   |   \
> >>  
> >>  rbdw3 scdwp scdwn
> >>  
> >>  /xX..   /p    /nX..
> >> 
> >> scdwp and scdwn are SCF, rbdw3 is RBF.  All need to talk to dw3 (dw3
> >> does the actual I/O whether to bitbanger, Becker/Boisy interface, or
> >> other).
> >> 
> >> HTH
> >> -Aaron
> > 
> > First, I need it to be able to open the console as named in the Init
> > file, according to the boot trace, that is failing.
> > 
> > I looked at the console 'Term' that I am using, which is
> > term_win80.dt, it claims to be an SCF module using VTIO.
> > 
> > So I moved VTIO to normal memory along with the term_win80.dt.
> > 
> > No change. i2xto*].
> > 
> > So I moved then both into the initial SCF memory block, no change.
> > Still DIW at i2xto*] .
> > 
> > So, does VTIO need an accessory helper?  I see by a dump of vtio.dr
> > that it is looking for keydrv,joydrv & snddrv, which are (ATM) all in
> > SCF memory, then much later I see the strings CoVDG, CoWin & Cogrf.
> > 
> > CoVDG and CoWin are in SCF memory.  I never heard of Cogrf but I do
> > see it in the modules/scf tree of my mb tree.  It is not in the
> > current, working L2+dw boot its running right now, so I have to
> > assume its optional.
> > 
> > I need fresh ideas.
> > 
> > One thing of note, the dw gui's printer must have a very fast timeout,
> > this command line gets me 2 sheets of paper, with perhaps a Nitros9
> > on the top line of the first sheet but otherwise blank:
> > 
> > ident -s /d0/os9boot >/p
> > 
> > but
> > 
> > ident -s /d0/os9boot >/d0/ident.list;list /d0/ident.list >/p
> > 
> > works.
> > 
> > I'm about tapped out for tonight, maybe tomorrow the "magic twanger"
> > will sound. :)
> > 
> > Humm, that phrase may be before AW's time?  Its from a very early
> > black and white kids show called Howdy Doody Time.  About 63 years
> > ago. :)
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> > --
> > 
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> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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Cheers, Gene
-- 
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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