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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Thanks… and, if you get it working, let me know what is different between how I installed. Curious as to what the issue is.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Jan 30, 2018, at 1:20 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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