[Coco] kevin darling?

[Boisy G. Pitre]

I presume you are talking about the SDisk driver for the Sardis No-Halt 
controller.  Back on 4/1, you asked for an OS-9 Level 1 driver, and I 
replied that all driver source was available up at www.nitros9.org.    
The link to the source code for all sdisk drivers is: 
http://cvs.nitros9.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/3rdparty/drivers/   Look at 
the sdisk and sdisk3 links on that page for the sources you want.


> 	Does anyone know where Mr. Darling is these days? If so
> can we beg him to see if he still has the source code for the
> SDisk OS9 disk driver?

Kevin Darling has long left the CoCo community.  Please get it out of 
your mind that you have to "beg" him for anything.  He is not a diety, 
and he does not need to be worshipped.  If anything,  Kevin and "cabal" 
(as Alan DeKok says) kept the source code away from the common man's 
eyes for a long, long time.  I maintain that he and others stifled the 
possible growth of OS-9 Level Two in the 1990s.  Yes, I know he was 
under "contract" from Tandy, but as of today, it's been 15 years since 
the demise of the CoCo 3.  If it weren't for the stubbornness and hard 
work of people like Alan DeKok, Bill Nobel, and others, the operating 
system would still be nothing more than pieces and patches.

I will give Kevin the credit he deserves.  He was (and probably still 
is) a great OS-9 programmer who contributed a lot to the understanding 
of the operating system.  I also maintain that he and his "Upgrade" 
team stood in the way of progress, even when it was obvious that 
releasing the OS-9 source to a long antiquated machine would have hurt 
no one and would have benefited a lot of folks.

Take notice man... this is exactly why the NitrOS-9 Project exists.  
It's a slap in the face of that elitism that typified the 80's and 
early 90's.  The source code is there for all eyes to see, and no one 
is hoarding it.  So please, stop asking for Kevin Darling for anything. 
  He is long gone, and I don't think he's coming back.  Go grab the 
sources yourself, and make a difference!

Gotta get back to work.
Boisy