[Coco] OS-9 loading NEW WAY

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 21 April 2015 09:55:06 Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2015 2:55 AM, "Stephen H. Fischer"
> <SFischer1 at mindspring.com>
>
> wrote:
> > It was a replacement for the DECB "DOS" command, track 34 and
> > OS9boot
>
> files.
>
> > It likely fell on deaf ears and no kind words were said about it. I
> > hear
>
> a lot of that.
>
> > SHF
>
> This happens sometimes and is unfortunate.   The noise on the list can
> drown out the folks actually creating new things and making stuff
> happen. Brett is one of the guys who makes stuff happen :)
>
> I have been following cocoboot for a while (and cheerleading for it
> now and then).  I think this is one of the best innovations we've seen
> on the coco in some time (not to discount any of the other great work
> that has been done!) The coco boot/IPL process hasn't seen much
> attention since the DECB ROMs were written.  Cocoboot is very flexible
> and can quite literally bootstrap a whole range of interesting
> projects.  It offers improvement for existing systems too, for
> instance simplifying the nitros9 boot up while saving precious system
> ram at the same time.

Can you elaborate on that Aaron?  I could sure use some help with the 
sysram squeeze.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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