[Coco] Back to the 6809 after 25 years!

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 05:08:00PM -0300, Juan Castro wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 01:51:34PM -0300, Juan Castro wrote:
> >
> > > The Unravelled books were my lifeline. OK, that, and some chip data
> > sheets.
> > > The lengths to which I would go to make space in the ROM for my patches
> > > were truly frightening. Let's just say the boot messages in ECB and DECB
> > > were greatly shortened to make way for code. I kid you not. Much EPROM
> > > eraser ozone was smelled.
> >
> > Maybe you should take-on the job of adding support for DriveWire
> > serial ports to DECB? :-)
> >
> 
> I don't know the DriveWire. I thought it was transparent already? Is the
> Cloud9 DECB ROM hacked in any way?

It's HDB-DOS, modified for the DriveWire protocol instead of using
a hard drive.  But, it doesn't support the serial port emulation or
other non-HD features of DriveWire.

John
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