[Coco] Thanks

[Dave Philipsen]

I just want to take this time to thank everyone for being patient with me.  Lately, I've been asking a lot of questions and I'm sure sometimes they can be taken a little differently than intended. As I mentioned in an earlier post I have been away from OS9 and the CoCo for some 22 years now and I find it very refreshing to see that everything is so well supported by knowledgeable people as yourselves.  Just the fact that we still have a viable replacement for the OS9 system after Microware's demise is testimony to the hard work that has gone into the development of NitrOS9.  I also certainly appreciate all of the tools that have been created to support the system, like Toolshed and Lwtools.  Soon, I will adopt these tools and learn how to use them as I can see that they are very useful.  However, I have some reasons (not merely because I'm stubborn!) for trying to get some of this development working natively from NitrOS9.  I have some projects that are more of an embedded nature and I plan on using some equipment that will be 6809-powered but not necessarily by a CoCo and now, not even necessarily by a 'real' 6809.  Being able to make changes on the fly in an environment where moving information back and forth from a PC is not practical is important to me.  So please don't take any of my questions or statements as an affront against anyone.  On the contrary, everyone who has contributed to this effort is worthy of praise on my part.  I just hope that eventually I can give something valuable back to the group.

A couple of my near term goals are to try to get my CoCo3 FPGA untethered from the PC and to implement a version of Level 2 NitrOS9 on a modified Multicomp project.

Dave Philipsen