[Coco] NitrOS-9 L3 Code and Disk Images

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 27 October 2014 09:44:57 Bill Pierce via Coco did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Gene, If I remember correctly, when Alan was developing Level 3,
> NitrOS9 was ONLY for 6309 and still in commercial form with "Northern
> Exposure". Level 3 was never ported to 6809 unless Boisy attempted it
> at some point in the repo afterwards.
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens

Apparently not, and that is what I am trying to fix.  Stay tuned as they 
say.
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 1:33 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9 L3 Code and Disk Images
> 
> 
> Found it, it is now in the F$srqmem modules, aka in
> level2/modules/kernel/fsrqmen.asm, but I'm puzzled because the
> conditional only allows it to work on a 6309 cpu.  Time to go look at
> nitro.asm and see why it will not work on a 6809. Did, its got 6309
> only code in it. Some of which may be hard and slower to work around
> for a 6809.  It really was a good plan I thought.
> 
> In this present state, 6809 coco3's will crash 100% of the time.
> Guaranteed.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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