[Coco] Sorry for last nights rant

[iggybeans at comcast.net]

Hopefully this will be included in the next mailing. 
The message posted last night was badly conceived. 
It was my stated intention (specifically to Boisy Petrie directly) to keep this project more to myself until I had a better working prototype. 

As I did not do that, no one could be more angry with me than I am with myself. 
And, as my failure to obtain NitroS9 source code is, as was pointed out, my own fault, I owe Boisy an apology. 

Further, as I voluntarirly gave up my last copies of the version of Color Computer 3 OS-9 Level II that we had been working on after the bid to get it turned over to third party development, AND have never since considered putting anything close to the hard efforts that all of the NitroS9 developers (past and present) have contributed to that project, criticizing that endeavor was a mistake on my part. 

Then again, if you have seen so of the work that was done developing OS-9 level II before it was discontinued, I think you would wonder why parts of it were not considered for NitroS9. 

The changes in the Windowing system alone were startling (although probably over reaching as I still don't now if the Color Computer 3 was powerful enough to fully support those goals). 


In any case, having already had my day supporting the Coco community, and not really being interested in returning to anything nearly that hard I need to clarify somethings. 

The projects mentioned are for my own amusement. 
Obviously, any work developing Color Computer hardware or software is a hobbyist pursuit and not competitive with modern hardware (nor is it intended to be). And, this stuff is not actually Color Computer hardware and may never run any common software with that platform. 
I know that the statement about modern applications might confound some of you, but if you read my post you would have noticed that I mentioned that our Point Of Sales system at Delmar Company had several terminals tied to it and was run by a Color Computer running OS-9. 
Even though we worked with 68K based hardware, there was never any need to upgrade that system past a Color Computer 3 AND it was a pretty competent, real, functional business application for a system that is frequently dismissed as toy like. 

So, I'm going to shut the f'k up and sit back and just listen for awhile. 
Even I feel better when i follow that course. 
Good luck to you all in the pursuit of your interests. 

Jim Igou