[Coco] Sorry for last nights rant

[Bill Pierce]

Jim,
I for one would be intersted in the developement that was done on OS-9 L2 in the last stages before being dicontinued.
I have run the "upgrade disk" that was obtained from Brother Jeremy and read through all the notes on thoses disks and saw some things that also made me wonder why they weren't included in NitrOS9.
Do you know if any of the sources to the upgrade still exist? Combined with the speedups and bug fixes that have been done in NitrOS9, there would be a possibility of a better operating system.
Also, do you know if anything was ever done with upgrading the C compiler?

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: iggybeans <iggybeans at comcast.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 10:28 am
Subject: [Coco] Sorry for last nights rant


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 

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