[Coco] OS-9 Level II vs Nitros9???

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Speaking of... Wayne, did you get a chance to get the Alpha 2, and see if you can get DECODE running on it?

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> On Jan 30, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel are spearheading the NitrOS-9 EOU (ease of use)
> effort. This includes more complete documentation, but I don't know how far
> they've gotten with the documentation. There is a alpha release of the EOU
> version of NitrOS-9, but it is not yet released for general consumption. If
> you're interested in checking it out, ask Curtis about it.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
> On Jan 30, 2018 10:46 AM, "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> There are reports that some documentation has yet to be written, I failed
>> to find the documentation for the Shell which is different from ShellPlus
>> 2.1a which I used.
>> 
>> Many commands have changed so many of my old scripts and typed in commands
>> from my memory did not work. I found no documentation for many NitrOS-9
>> commands and the NitrOS-9 source code needed to be looked at to figure some
>> things out.
>> 
>> Now there are some new items in NitrOS-9 but compare that with what was
>> posted on Delphi / CI$ which added up to a great development system build
>> by many smart people.
>> 
>> Take my VDir ShellSub  program, on my webpage:
>> 
>> http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/
>> 
>> I appear to be blocked from RTSI on my new W10 computer, is that a known
>> problem.
>> 
>> I have been thinking about a new Facebook group for OS-9.
>> 
>> The Facebook NitrOS-9 / OS-9 group appears to be like the OS-9 forum on
>> Delphi at the end, all the OS-9 people had been driven away by the OSK
>> people. You know how well that went.
>> 
>> SHF
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>> 
>> From: Joe Schutts via Coco
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 10:04 AM
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Cc: Joe Schutts
>> Subject: [Coco] OS-9 Level II vs Nitros9???
>> 
>> Hi Everyone,
>> HELP!!!
>> I'm SLOWLY (and I do mean SLOWLY) getting back into the CoCo after being
>> away for a number of years and was wondering about the PROS/CONS of using
>> OS-9 vs Nitros9. While back in the day (when I was using my CoCo 1 and 3
>> almost constantly), I only used OS-9 (Level 2 only) to make modified boot
>> disks (loaders???) so I could access the full 40 track drives I had. And
>> although I did have 2 Double-Sided Drives, I never modified a Boot Disk to
>> take advantage of that fact. Regretfully, I used it for VERY LITTLE else.
>> Granted I had both the C-Compiler and Basic-09 and (I believe) Forth (or
>> was it Pascal) and still do somewhere in my collection, I seldom played
>> with those as well.
>> 
>> But now WHAT I want to know (preferably in a list) is WHAT are the
>> advantages/disadvantages of using OS-9 Level 2 over Nitros9. This way,
>> hopefully I can make a final decision of whether or not to switch over to
>> Nitros9 OR just stay with the tried (or is that tired) and true OS-9 Level
>> 2 OS that I currently have.
>> Hopefully some of you guys (and/or ladies as well), can give me some
>> pointers (as well as tips) on which system to choose over the other...
>> Thanks in advance for your help and take care...
>> Joe...
>> 
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