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

[Wayne Campbell]

Unfortunately, not yet. I have the link, but no time to get it and install
decode on it. I am not driving today (epidural injection) so after I get my
other business finished I will see about it. Perhaps tonight I will have it
done. I will let you know.


On Jan 30, 2018 11:16 AM, "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:

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