[Coco] RS-DOS blows??? The hell it does!!

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Tue Sep 7 12:10:58 EDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nickolas Marentes" <NickM at qm.qld.gov.au>

> That's not nice.
...
> I'm on to my 3rd attempt over 15 years at getting to grips with OS-9 to
get
> to the stage of actually being able to write software to the level that I
do
> under RS-DOS. This time, I'm not going to let it drive me to insanity as
it
> has in the past. I understand the rules I must abide by under OS-9 and I
am
> giving myself more time to digest it all.
...

OS-9 is easier to understand if you've learnt Unix. I have thought for a
while that teaching computing students OS-9 on a 6809 system similar to a
Coco would be a good way to give them training that they could not otherwise
get.

Neil




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