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

[Wayne Campbell]

Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel are spearheading the NitrOS-9 EOU (ease of use)
effort. This includes more complete documentation, but I don't know how far
they've gotten with the documentation. There is a alpha release of the EOU
version of NitrOS-9, but it is not yet released for general consumption. If
you're interested in checking it out, ask Curtis about it.

Wayne


On Jan 30, 2018 10:46 AM, "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> There are reports that some documentation has yet to be written, I failed
> to find the documentation for the Shell which is different from ShellPlus
> 2.1a which I used.
>
> Many commands have changed so many of my old scripts and typed in commands
> from my memory did not work. I found no documentation for many NitrOS-9
> commands and the NitrOS-9 source code needed to be looked at to figure some
> things out.
>
> Now there are some new items in NitrOS-9 but compare that with what was
> posted on Delphi / CI$ which added up to a great development system build
> by many smart people.
>
> Take my VDir ShellSub  program, on my webpage:
>
> http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/
>
> I appear to be blocked from RTSI on my new W10 computer, is that a known
> problem.
>
> I have been thinking about a new Facebook group for OS-9.
>
> The Facebook NitrOS-9 / OS-9 group appears to be like the OS-9 forum on
> Delphi at the end, all the OS-9 people had been driven away by the OSK
> people. You know how well that went.
>
>  SHF
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Joe Schutts via Coco
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 10:04 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Cc: Joe Schutts
> Subject: [Coco] OS-9 Level II vs Nitros9???
>
> 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...
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>