[Coco] [coco] OS9, terminals and memory

[George Ramsower]

  It was my understanding at the time that OS9 was intended to be an 
imbedded operating system and could be used also as such as what I did 
then. External terminal and such. So it only made sense that building 
the boot disk with that in mind only made sense. So I tested this idea 
and with very little messing with the boot list, it was a success.
  It really was simple to do with OS9 then. I don't know about now, 
especially with Nitros9(which I don't use). I haven't found a need to 
upgrade to Nitros9, yet. For what I do with a coco, the speed difference 
doesn't really make it worth it.
  However, it seems lately that support for the original OS9 and OS9L2 
is failing in preference to Nitros9 and all the stuff that it can do 
now. Almost everything I do on a Coco with OS9 can be done on a single 
floppy disk and I'm good with that.
  The more intense stuff, requiring more power and speed I do on this 
stupid PC and now, it's Winderz7. I'm good with that but, I really wish 
I could do on this stupid thing what I can do on my Coco. There is no 
useable Basic for this thing. I wish there was a B09 that would run on 
this box that also allowed me to do peeks and pokes to hardware chips 
connected to the outside world.
  Oh, well!!

On 1/18/2014 6:22 PM, Kip Koon wrote:
> Hi George!
> That is so interesting.  I never did that.  How did you get  the idea to
> experiment in that direction?  I imagine it was because you wanted an 80
> column screen.