[Coco] ack!
Bill Pierce
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Fri May 31 22:42:15 EDT 2013
Gene, I was actally meaning the "nitro" and "end" modules used to seprerate the rbf and scf. Sorry about that.
Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 10:23 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
On Friday 31 May 2013 22:15:55 Bill Pierce did opine:
> Wayne, The Level 3 that Curtis is referring to is a complete rewrite of
> RBF & SCF by Alan Dekok that lock's their modules into their own
> address space allowing more contegious memory for the whole boot file.
> It was never used in NitrOS9 as it was never stable. Through the years
> it was forgotten by most as it was known by even fewer. Alan had a
> website which (I think) is on the wayback machine or one of those
> website archives, explaining the whole process, but the file links are
> long gone. The main module sources (only 2) are in the nitros9 repo but
> all the supporting patches to the other modules were (seemingly) lost.
> Gene has worked with this recently but ran into problems trying to
> include drivewire as the dw drivers/descriptors reside both in rbf and
> scf which is a no-no in the Level 3 setup. I don't know if he got it to
> boot without dw... Gene?
>
It is probably something I should try at some point. However, this is the
first I had heard that rbf.mn and scf.mn were specifically re-written for
level 3. I assume that those modules that are in the NOS96309 level3 tree
then are different.
If that can be confirmed, and those src's located, its possibly worth
another play at it. I just took a look at my tree here, and they are NOT
part of the level3 tree on my drive.
> Bill Pierce
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 9:41 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
>
>
> I thought NOS-9 contains the Level 3 upgrades? Maybe not all? Any plans
> to take NOS-9 in that direction?
>
> Wayne
>
> "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> >Heh... "too big" of boot files was the precise reason that Alan Dekok
> >did OS-9
>
> Level 3.
>
> >L. Curtis Boyle
> >curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
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