[Coco] NitrOS9 driver for Tandy RS232 Pak?

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, John Eric wrote:

> I have an issue of trs-80 microcomputer news around here somewhere that 
> has an asm listing of a device descriptor or driver for the rs-232 pak. 
> If I can locate which issue, I could scan it, but I thought os-9 L2 came 
> with support for the rs-232 pack, if so, couldn't it becopied over to 
> nitros9?

I recall reading warnings in the NitrOS9 docs about using stock OS-9 
drivers.  Does anyone know if this works?

Steve


> Title says it.  I understand that OS-9 has always supported user 
> consoles on the bit-banger serial port, but with speed limited to 
> 300-baud (!)
>
> I have just acquired a Tandy RS232 Program Pak and am wondering whether 
> such a thing as a terminal driver exists for it.  Grepping the sources 
> for NitrOS9 is showing only a device descriptor for a serial console. 
> Where (if it exists) is the actual driver?
>
> I'd like to connect a serial terminal at, e.g. 19200 baud to the CoCo 3 
> and obtain an OS-9 login.  While I like most everything about the CoCo 
> as an 8-bit hobby machine, I find the keyboard unspeakably wretched. 
> Ideally, I could use miniterm from my Linux box to log in.

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