[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: OS-9 as Replacement for DECB.

[Ward Griffiths]

On 09/02/2005 03:22 pm, Kevin Diggs wrote:

>  Given the existence of OS9 (with BASIC09, C, and PASCAL), I just don't
> get why people stick with the ROM stuff? WARNING - ATTEMPT AT HUMOR -
> WARNING: Do you guys also like to play with abacci, piles of rocks, and
> sticks in loose dirt?

Will a simple "yes" to that question satisfy you?  I do still indeed try to 
keep in practice with an abacus.  As well as with the primitive BASIC 
interpreters in my ancient Tandy (Z-80, 6809, 68k, 8085) equipment.

I also like BASIC09.  But I've probably written more lines of code in the 
Bourne shell and several of its descendants than I ever wrote in BASIC (BASIC 
was my main language from 1978 to 1983, but then Xenix showed up in my RSCC).
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

Let's get real. According to the CBO's report, in the current fiscal 
year the U.S. government is gorging on some $2,142 billion of revenues, 
consisting of taxes, fees, charges, fines, and other species of 
extractions from the people's purses. This sum works out to 
approximately $7,500 for every man, woman, and child resident in this 
country, or $30,000 for a family of four average persons. Perhaps some 
of those people feel they are getting benefits worth at least this much. 
I myself don't have that feeling.   --  Robert Higgs