[Coco] Building NitrOS-9 on Mac OS X

[nickma2 at optusnet.com.au]

I don't know if it were as bad. I never had to reinstall my MS-DOS on
my Hard Drive. Just adding and editing the Config.Sys and
Autoexec.bat. Many programs didn't even need this once a reliable
config was setup.

It just amazes me that OS-9 software for hard drive use doesn't
install easier. 

I just got sick of stuffing around in OS-9 just to get things working
all the time. I wanted to be creating applications that release the
full power of the computer but OS-9 was more a deterrant to creating
applications of the quality I was hoping for. 

Nick

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Sent:Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:55:51 -0600
Subject:Re: [Coco] Building NitrOS-9 on Mac OS X

 Sub-Etha launched with just RS-DOS stuff, but found out in 1990 that
most folks at the fest wanted OS-9 stuff so we quickly moved to
writing OS-9. The downside was we couldn't slap OS-9 on the disks we
sold, so you could never DOS boot third party apps and go. Instead,
you would have to DOS boot your OS-9 disk and then swap floppies or
copy our stuff over. That extra step was a pain, but I guess there was
that in the pre HD PC days too where one disk was MS-DOS then you
swapped to load the programs. Once I got my first hard drive, I never
looked back.

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