[Coco] OS9 Boot SDC

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 23 April 2020 18:36:26 L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

> The one we used back in the day was SACIA (by Bruce Isted) and DACIA
> (also by Bruce, but for the better/bug free 6522 chip instead the
> 6551). Bruce had one master source file called XACIA that would
> generate both. They had adjustable buffer sizes (up to 3.75K per
> port), working software and hardware flow control, etc. Bill Nobel and
> I have not gotten that far in the NitrOS9 boot modules yet in our Ease
> of Use project (we have been cleaning up/optimizing some of the core
> modules, and the graphics system), but after Beta 5 is out next week,
> we are planning to start tackling some of modules that are further out
> from the core (SDC, Drivewire, RS-232 etc.). But it will probably take
> awhile for Bill and me to re-familiarize ourselves with this; we
> haven’t looked at that code since around 2000/2001.
>
All I can say is yippee! Please, when its ready, plz post the hg pull 
links.

> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
> > On Apr 23, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > On Apr 23, 2020, at 4:45 PM, phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It still works on the real coco. Can you please re-add it back to
> >> NItroos9 please?
> >
> > When I ran my BBSes, I used a third party serial driver that worked
> > much better than the one that came with OS-9. The stock one couldn’t
> > do high speed very well and the modified ones worked better and
> > added better flow control.
> >
> > I forget who wrote it, but it was a must have back then. I don’t
> > know if that was merged into NitrOS-9 or not but you would still be
> > able to get it and swap out the modules just like back then I would
> > imagine.
> >
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