[Coco] NitrOS9 ROM

[Stephen H. Fischer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugo Dufort" <hugo at seshat.ca>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 ROM


> You could also write an OS-9 ROM bootloader. That is, a tiny routine 
> that boots OS-9 from disk without ever loading the DECB/Microsoft stuff 
> into memory.
> I guess you could do that using the tiniest ROM available!
> 
> Or maybe I'm wrong and it's not possible?!
> 
> Hugo

Jeff Vavasour CoCo 3 emulator includes the tiniest ROM available which only boots OS-9.

That bypassed the need for CoCo ROMs which were thought at the time to be hot potatoes.

SHF