[Coco] OS-9 Level II vs Nitros9???

[Wayne Campbell]

You don't want to use vanilla OS-9 for one reason. It is not Y2K compliant,
and all you file's date stamps will be wrong.

That's the short answer. I leave it to others to provide greater detail.

Wayne


On Jan 30, 2018 9:59 AM, "Joe Schutts via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> HELP!!!
> I'm SLOWLY (and I do mean SLOWLY) getting back into the CoCo after being
> away for a number of years and was wondering about the PROS/CONS of using
> OS-9 vs Nitros9. While back in the day (when I was using my CoCo 1 and 3
> almost constantly), I only used OS-9 (Level 2 only) to make modified boot
> disks (loaders???) so I could access the full 40 track drives I had. And
> although I did have 2 Double-Sided Drives, I never modified a Boot Disk to
> take advantage of that fact. Regretfully, I used it for VERY LITTLE else.
> Granted I had both the C-Compiler and Basic-09 and (I believe) Forth (or
> was it Pascal) and still do somewhere in my collection, I seldom played
> with those as well.
>
> But now WHAT I want to know (preferably in a list) is WHAT are the
> advantages/disadvantages of using OS-9 Level 2 over Nitros9. This way,
> hopefully I can make a final decision of whether or not to switch over to
> Nitros9 OR just stay with the tried (or is that tired) and true OS-9 Level
> 2 OS that I currently have.
> Hopefully some of you guys (and/or ladies as well), can give me some
> pointers (as well as tips) on which system to choose over the other...
> Thanks in advance for your help and take care...
> Joe...
>
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