[Coco] NitrOS-9 on DriveWire diskette

Frederick D Provoncha elderpav at juno.com
Tue Sep 28 17:58:45 EDT 2004


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:20:28 -0400 Robert Gault
<robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> writes:
> alsplace at pobox.com wrote:
> 
> > Robert (see below) -- the current Mac OS X is based on a similar 
> style 
> > OS that would also be confusing, yet Apple has been able to hide 
> that 
> > away.  What keeps us from doing the same thing here?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
> > There is documentation both in the Cloud-9 package and the 
> nitros9.org 
> > site. The site also has source code for the NitrOS-9 system. 
> > OS-9/NitrOS-9 does not approach the friendliness of Disk Basic, 
> Windows 
> > software, Mac-OS, or other popular systems.
> 
> Nothing, and MultiView was a stab in that direction. Some users 
> really 
> like MV, personally I am happy with the stock OS-9 command mode. 
> Perhaps 
> we need a dedicated user to spruce up MultiView to get it closer to 
> a PC 
> or Mac Windows package.

If I was familiar enough with Assembly, I would. I have a lot of ideas as
to how Multi-Vue could be improved. I love Multi-Vue, but I don't have
the knowledge of Assembly (yet) to actually update it myself.

Fred Provoncha



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