[Coco] [CoCo] NitrOS-9 on real CoCo (Was DriveWire 4)

[Bill Gunshannon]

OK, so much for being a purist....

I now have a NitrOS9 development on my Linux desktop.  Next
step, are there instructions about what has to be done to get support
for the TC^3 into an image.  Also, is there any way for a system to
boot directly from a hard disk or is a boot floppy necessary in all cases?

bill

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 8:34 AM
To: Dave Philipsen; CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] NitrOS-9 on real CoCo (Was DriveWire 4)

I'm interested in going even further and I may be able to try it anyway.
I want to re-write it in C (it might be fun to try Ada as well, but would
definitely not be as efficient and Ada compilers are rarer) so that it can
be ported to other architectures. NitrOS11 on a PDP-11 anyone? 😊

bill

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 10:14 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] NitrOS-9 on real CoCo (Was DriveWire 4)

I’m 100% behind you on this.  I’ve already converted a few things to assemble under the stock OS9 assembler but I’d like to eventually be able to have an automated process to build OS9 from sources on my CoCo3FPGA.  Might be a little slow on a real CoCo but still probably worth it.

Dave

> On Jan 2, 2018, at 3:55 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ​
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> ​<cut>
>>
> Still leaves the question can NitrOS9 be built on a real
>> COCO using the tools available as part of the OS or is it
>> required to build it on a PC?
>>
>
> ​​After the conversion of NitrOS-9 Project to be built with lwtools and the
> defs files were updated with longer more meaningful labels you can no
> longer build NitrOS-9 on a real CoCo. :(  As normal ASM is limited to 8
> character labels and I believe RMA is also.​
>
> Personally I wish that NitrOS-9 was still able to be built on a real CoCo
> 3, but I guess the powers didn't think it was important to maintain that
> ability.
>
>
>
>> I guess my purism is showing, but if I am going to build the
>> OS on a PC and run an emulator of the COCO on a PC why
>> would I not just use a PC OS on the PC?  :-)
>>
>> bill
>>
>> ​<cut>
>>
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