[Coco] Microware OS-9 Manuals

[Joel Ewy]

On 11/28/2013 09:23 AM, Greg Law wrote:
> Thanks, these don't have the complete LSN 0 information either. You 
> have the Tandy OS-9 Level 2 Technical Reference and the Microware OS-9 
> System Programmer's Manual (which will come in handy for a bit of 
> cross-referencing), but neither of these completely cover LSN 0. Both 
> these have DD.SPT (sectors per track) followed by DD.RSV (reserved) 
> and I think one of the two reserved bytes is actually something like 
> DD.T0S that specifies the number of sectors in Track 0 since it can be 
> different than DD.SPT. I think the Gimix and other SWTPC versions of 
> OS-9 used something like 10 sectors on Track 0 and 16 or 18 sectors 
> for all remaining tracks.
>
I have PDFs of OS-9 manuals that purport to have come with a GIMIX 
system.  I got them off the net somewhere, but don't recall at the 
moment where from, and a quick search doesn't find them online.  The 
manuals were scanned without OCR, so they're fairly large.  All the 
GIMIX documentation is about 127M, though the OS-9 User Manual is only 
about 10M.  Should I upload them to one of the aforementioned sites?

JCE

> I see DD.T0S outlined in the device descriptor and in the path 
> descriptor, but I'd swear it should be on LSN 0 as well but the Tandy 
> manuals omit this information.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Michael Rowen
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:30 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Microware OS-9 Manuals
>
> Greg,
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> You can find complete PDFs at cococoding.com.
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> Greg Law <glaw at live.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have or know where I might obtain scanned or text 
>> versions of the Microware OS-9 Level 2 manuals? I’m looking through 
>> the NitrOS-9 Technical Reference and noticed that the layout of LSN 0 
>> is not quite kosher. Specifically, it’s missing the information on 
>> the non-CoCo disk formats that have T0S potentially set to a 
>> different sector size than the rest of the disk. This makes me wonder 
>> how much other information might be missing from the NitrOS-9 
>> documentation.
>>
>> I’d like to get a complete set of the Microware manuals if they are 
>> available, but I’ll take what I can get.
>>
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