[Coco] NitrOS9 and 6309 code
Gene Heskett
gheskett at shentel.net
Sat Jun 1 12:41:14 EDT 2019
On Saturday 01 June 2019 08:22:39 am Allen Huffman wrote:
> On May 31, 2019, at 10:52 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
wrote:
> > It still think “Bad Module” should be reserved for a damaged module
> > (bad length, CRC, Header parity, etc.) vs. for wrong CPU. This would
> > make it easier for beginners to know whether they have accidentally
> > mixed a perfectly good 6309 module on a 6809 system, vs. trying to
> > figure out if a module has gotten corrupted.
> >
> > My thoughts, anyways.
>
> Does 6809 not have a Bad CRC error already? I later OS-9, Bad Module
> is returned when you try to load a perfectly good binary that is from
> the wrong version of OS-9, or a PC executable ;)
That should not be an error unless the change was done with a binary
editor such as ded, and the change was saved with a w, but a v wasn't
done which would have fixed all that. So the O.P. got nibbled on.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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