[Coco] Microware OS-9 Manuals

[Joel Ewy]

On 11/28/2013 10:07 AM, Joel Ewy wrote:
> 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?

Google search on "GIMIX documentation" points to the archives of this 
list.  Ryan Pritchard uploaded all this stuff to maltedmedia in 2008:  
ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/MANUALS%20by%20company/GIMIX/

JCE
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> 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,
>>
>> 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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