[Coco] Making OS-9/NitrOS9 more user friendly Facebook group discussion

Christopher R. Hawks chawks at dls.net
Fri Nov 17 07:06:19 EST 2017


On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:34:39 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 16 November 2017 21:40:30 Allen Huffman wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 16, 2017, at 7:40 PM, William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > Recently there was a Facebook discussion in the Tandy Color
> > > Computer OS-9 / NitrOS9 group on the topic of increasing the user
> > > friendliness of OS-9/NitrOS9.
> >
> > I read through the first part of this and it’s clear I need to take
> > a deep dive in to it, so I’ll be printing this one out to read over
> > lunch. The inconsistencies in options no doubt doesn’t help, but the
> > help files and such could easily be addressed. It would be a good
> > task force to create with folks taking on tiny jobs, chipping away
> > at it.
> 
> Suggestion: What we need for boot creation is an editor that can look
> at a descriptor, obtain the driver that goes with it, and makes sure
> its in the bootlist. Or if we remove a descriptor, checks to see if
> its the last user of a driver and deletes in from the bootlist if it
> was. With context aware help, that would go a long way towards
> improving the user friendliness.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

    I believe Bill P. (?) is working toward that, but, it sounds like a
huge job...


Christopher R. Hawks
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