[Coco] Ownership of NitOS-9

[Stephen H. Fischer]

It's on the OS-9 second disk, made by Tandy Programmers.

Totally forgotten as well as almost all of the great work of Delphi and CI$ 
programmers.

The one piece that has continued and is badly broken on NitrOS-9 is 
ShellPlus. My thread about that was deleted, I cannot see how it can be 
fixed!

But the Linux programmers that have created NitrOS-9 cannot understand how 
Windows does just what you suggest and have been doing it for a very long 
time.

SHF

<nickma2-sFbbPxZDHXw0n/F98K4Iww at public.gmane.org> wrote in message 
news:2f0272462905a29be39a4267472e3bff31dfd2ee at webmail.optuszoo.com.au...
>I agree with what you say. Everyone's machine is different. That's why
> OS-9 needs an easy to use way for each user to create a system that
> suits their hardware setup.
>
> Something anyone can use comfortably without needing to be a seasoned
> OS-9 veteran.
>
> Can you see what I'm saying?
>
> If a newbie struggles to even be able to setup his OS, what impression
> does that leave after hours of frustration?
>
> If that newbie could simply run OSCONFIG (or whatever) and be
> presented with some menu system where he picks his hardware components
> and it does all the work of fetching the drivers from a repository on
> another disk, leaving him with a finished OS at the end, wouldn't he
> walk away feeling impressed with the system? That's the true power of
> an OS, it being able to act intelligently on your behalf and allowing
> the user to "get on with the job".
>
> Because there is so much diversity in hardware, all the more reason
> for the need for this sort of "polish".
>
> Nick
>