[Coco] What do people want?

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:59 PM, David Ladd <dladd at realmspire.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Robert Hermanek
> <rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
>> I can only think of one little thing:  A drivewire version of HDB-DOS that
>> expects the drivewire connection on an rs-232 pak, instead of internal
>> serial port.
>
> I would think this would be possible to do.  Modify the becker port
> routines to use the address space of the rs232 pack and update the
> status register read.  Only thing that should be needed to be added
> would be another routine to set the serial baud rate.
>

Years ago there was an OS9 module to do this, but it's been gone for a
while.  There might be room in HDBDOS but I'm not sure, it's awfully
cramped.  Anyway it is possible to code one way or another, but would
be painfully slow so probably not very popular.