[Coco] DriveWire on the Raspberry Pi in five easy steps.

[Richard E Crislip]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:13:46 -0600
Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Actually no,  Bro. Jeremy got a hold of the Level 2 Upgrade that
> Kevin Darling was doing for Tandy years ago.  That upgrade is already
> incorporated into the V3.3.0 of Nitros9.  Level 3 is a new system
> Alan Dekok took on a couple of years ago that significantly  improves
> system ram space by seperating SCF & RBF into their own memory
> spaces. outside of the system map.   For instance my V3.3.0 boot I
> have 2k free in my system map. Under Level 3 I get 14k free in system
> map 12k free for SCF and 8k free for RBF with the same modules
> loaded.  Essentially, Level 3 gives 3 separate system maps.  You can
> run more windows & applications under Level 3.
> 
> Bill Nobel
> 
> > On Feb 11, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Richard E Crislip
> > <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:29:51 -0600
> > Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com <mailto:b_nobel at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >> Well, if you are using ‘HG’ tot pull the repo on the pi. it will be
> >> present in the folder structure with nitro.a & _end.a in the
> >> level3/modules folder.  Myself and Robert have been looking into
> >> the changes made in ioman, clock and os9p1 from last known copies
> >> of working boots of L3. Right now I have 2 different ioman’s one
> >> bigger than Roberts bootable I got a hold of from Alan that has
> >> even more additions (30 bytes bigger).
> >> 
> >> Bill Nobel
> >> 
> >>> On Feb 10, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> On Feb 10, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> No, I am talking Level 3 which Alan was doing splitting SCF/RBF
> >>>> into their own system map.  The way the repo is setup is the
> >>>> conditionals for Level 3 are in the Level2/modules/* source
> >>>> folder.  Only the modules new to Level 3 end up in
> >>>> Level3/modules/*. Which in case you aren’t aware the nitro.a
> >>>> (which at some point Alan changed to Nitros9.a in the copy I
> >>>> received) and _end.a are the only new code for Level 3 the rest
> >>>> is modified Level 2 code.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Bill Nobel
> >>> 
> >>> That was the most significant OS-9 upgrade to me, even more so
> >>> than 6309. I found my original L3 boot disks with the odd end
> >>> marker modules in them and had to remember what they were :)
> >>> 
> >>> What is the /level3 directory in the repository?
> >>> 
> >>> 		— A
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
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> >> 
> > 
> > Hi Bill, What was the level 3 Bro Jeremy had and was giving away?
> > TIA
> > 
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Thank you, Can't wait to try it out.