[Coco] Ownership of NitOS-9

[Brett Gordon]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>
> I think that is a great idea.  But there is one showstopper problem.
>
> Exactly none of the I/O devices we have today, is capable of being
> interrogated on the hardware level, and returning an $Id string.
>
> So you are still stuck with asking the user to identify his hardware and
> its configuration.  For those who have had their stuff for yonks, likely
> no problem, we know what we have.  But for the new bee, whats an MPI, or
> whats a 1Gb hard drive, scsi or ide?  Addressed as CHS, or LBA?
>
> I think you can see where I'm going.  You are going to wind up building
> the list on non-volatile media, and chain linking the various bits and
> pieces because its going to be a rather lengthy program when done.


Wow... Gene.  You've described much of my CoCoBoot project.  chain
linking, nonvolatile media,  too many setting to figure out :)

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Brett M. Gordon,
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