[Coco] NitrOS-9 L3 Code and Disk Images

[L. Curtis Boyle]

This is correct. At that time, NitrOS-9 was commercial, and 6309 only.

L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Oct 27, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Gene, If I remember correctly, when Alan was developing Level 3, NitrOS9 was ONLY for 6309 and still in commercial form with "Northern Exposure". Level 3 was never ported to 6809 unless Boisy attempted it at some point in the repo afterwards.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 1:33 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9 L3 Code and Disk Images
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> 
> Found it, it is now in the F$srqmem modules, aka in 
> level2/modules/kernel/fsrqmen.asm, but I'm puzzled because the conditional 
> only allows it to work on a 6309 cpu.  Time to go look at nitro.asm and 
> see why it will not work on a 6809. Did, its got 6309 only code in it.  
> Some of which may be hard and slower to work around for a 6809.  It really 
> was a good plan I thought.
> 
> In this present state, 6809 coco3's will crash 100% of the time.  
> Guaranteed.
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