[Coco] My Windows Readme

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I put my coding pad down decades ago.

My recent attempts have not gone anywhere near completion.

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/731457-hdhomerun-dual-atsc-qam-ethernet-box-66.html#post24078505

Urbane got a huge number of downloads but no indication that it was being used.

I attempted to look at installing my window descriptors into NitrOS-9.

Boy was I hit with a huge landslide that stopped that cold.

Shellplus, a lost cause, throw it away and start over.

After ROTROD I may go back to improving the ShellPlus documentation for OS-9. Maybe somebody will see if NitrOS-9 ShellPlus matches what I document. 

How can I say that ShellPlus is broken on NitrOS-9 when there is no document saying what should work.

I put my hat in the ring to run as dictator. I got one vote.

That was fine except no one else got any votes.

So the position remains open as it has been since Tandy vacated the position.

I see signs almost every day that we are paying a steep price without one.

I know that the Linux people think that their system is a great one and thus it should be used for the CoCo.

I think that stinks to high hell.

Someone please take over the dictator position and lead us out the huge mess we have.

SHF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Open Letter to those who will be attending the The24thAnnual "Last Chicago CoCoFEST April 25-26, 2015


> On Saturday 04 April 2015 15:47:48 Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 1:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Open Letter to those who will be attending the The
>> 24thAnnual "Last Chicago CoCoFEST April 25-26, 2015 ...
>>
>> >  No thanks to Kevin, I think he did
>> > it intentionally.
>>
>> Just like you broke more by trying to steal a bit in the cluster map
>> (sp).
> 
> Yes I did. As far as I know, only Boisy and I got bit. I forgot to take 
> my own advice.  I had good motives to do so as without it we still do 
> not have a way to do any sort of an incremental, only "whats changed" 
> backup. But it would have been a zero problem had people (including me) 
> invoked my advice about the SAS setting in the descriptor.  Or I should 
> have waited until I could figure out where to limit the segmnent table 
> to 47 entries.  Even on a floppy, it should never have been under $10, 
> and preferably $20.  The default of $08 has used up the segment tables 
> 48 entries at a file size of 98,304 bytes under the worst scenario 
> conditions.  That, at some point will be encountered on a 35Trk, SS 
> disk. Best scenario would be at 524,288 bytes, disk full before segment 
> table on all but 720k floppies.
> 
> The repo's value has I believe been raised if Tormod had applied my 
> proposed commits.
> 
>> PLEASE STOP bashing Kevin, As I said to Bosie, Kevin was not the
>> person to be contacted.
> 
> You brought the name up.
> 
>> Please get back on topic!!!!!
> 
> This is suddenly a closed list run by a dictator?  Your way or the 
> highway?  I do not believe that this is why Dennis supplies this list.
> 
>> What is being posted is not the discussion I intended.
> 
> Probably not Steven, but you've either ignored me, or even said I was 
> wrong for quite a while on this list.  I am interested in the betterment 
> of Nitros9 in general.  Grepping the src tree, my name falls out 45 
> times. Thats more than I actually have contributed because I tend to add 
> my name in a comment when I have fixed something I consider to be 
> important enough to note it.  Might be 6 or more hits in one file. So 
> dilute that 45 accordingly.
> 
> Yours?  I cannot get a hit.  Seems like I should ask why not?
> 
>> SHF
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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