[Coco] CUBIX on the CoCo?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 30 Oct 2005 at 19:08, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

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Subject:        	Re: [Coco] CUBIX on the CoCo?
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> 
> On Oct 30, 2005, at 7:00 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> 
> > Dave
> >
> > First off thanks for the info. I was not sure but is did seem that
> > keyboard and video driver were specific to the board and user. You
> > essentially confirmed my suspicion. As far as I know, the standard
> > basic roms in the Coco3 do not use the SWI interrupt. I know that
> > OS9 does. I did see your use of the SWI instruction and as of now
> > see no issue to it.
> 
> Actually, OS-9 only hooks into the SWI2 vector.  Given that, I  
> believe it might be possible to do a port of CUBIX so that it  
> actually ran under NitrOS-9 Level 2 as a process.  The I/O routines 
> that need to be written could actually be written to invoke OS-9 I
> $Read/I$Write calls, and since each process gets its own 64K space on 
> a CoCo 3, this isn't as far fetched as it may sound.
> 
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I never thought of that. Cubix as a process of OS9. That might even be easier than 
a straight port to the Coco3. 

james

> I tend to agree with James; if one wanted to port CUBIX straight to 
> the CoCo, it would be easier on a CoCo 1/2 than on a CoCo 3. -- Boisy
> G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com "Monde, je suis pas venu ici pour vous
> faire de la peine."
> 
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