[Coco] Boot flexibility in OS-9

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Diggs" <kevdig at hypersurf.com>


> Hi,
>
> Any chance of getting a modular kernel like linux? OS-9 already has
> everything organized in modules. Could drivers, managers, and
> descriptors be loaded and unloaded on the fly?

I suspect that the designers didn't want to load modules in from floppy all
the time. TRS-DOS did that, and it is slow. However, OS-9 supports loading
from ROM which might work better.

Neil