[Coco] Ownership of NitOS-9

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 07 November 2014 17:02:53 Brett Gordon did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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 :)

I figured as much. :)

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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