[Coco] Ownership of NitOS-9

[Bill Pierce]

Nick... what you have to realize and remember about Nitros9... is that my system is NOT like yours, and yours is NOT like Gene's and Gene's is NOT like Robert's....
I doubt any given system by any two people one this list are the same. There's different drivers for different hardware, and different hardware for different needs.
To say something is wrong with Nitros9 because you were trying to use the wrong access method is the very reason OS9 got a bad name in the beginning. In the past 30 years of working in OS9, I have found that 99.99% of the complaints I've seen/heard/solved were user's mistakes.
There is no way in a distribution of a product like Nitros9 that you can anticipate the user's hardware and build "one system" that will work for everybody... your SDC boot would crash badly on my Dw4 or B&B systems.
That has been the boon of OS9 from the beginning... not a lack of proper drivers.... but a lack of "standard" hardware. Nitros9 as it stands today, with someone with the knowledge to set their system up correctly, is the most stable build of OS9 i've ever run.... BAR NONE. Polish??? Personally, I think it's damned shiney already...
First... know your hardware... research the drivers for that harware... they're all in the repo... then set up a system using the proper drivers for YOUR system. That is really the hardest step in OS9... getting the boot right for your system.
The SDC (from what I understand) was meant to replace the floppy disk... and maybe even the hard drive. I've no real knowledge of how it works until I have one which will not be anytime soon as I cannot afford it. But again.... the word "Documentation" comes in. I've seen the SDC website, but I don't believe the product has any docs..... A product with this much power should have RSDOS and OS9 docs explaining exactly how to set it up and run it. I may be wrong and Darren may have provided documentation... if so, sorry for mentioning it. But it's common at this time for everyone creating all this great hardware/software and no Docs.... then the questions come... and the vague answers... and more questions.... Pretty soon, people just give up.
As I said before... I've been doing this 30 years and I still learn something new every day :-)


Bill Pierce
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