[Coco] [Color Computer] Nitros9 Boot file

[Robert Gault]

Mark Marlette wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Good work. Raises a question....
> 
> Boisy - Is the bootfile allowed to be fragmented. I know we talked  
> about it.????
> 
> Mark
> www.cloud9tech.com
 ><snip>

Standard OS-9 requires a contiguous os9boot file on disk. I think the 
next release of NitrOS-9 will not. However, the disk requirement may not 
follow over to memory.

MDIR -e reports all modules in the boot file being contiguous in memory. 
A third party program DIRM indicates that the descriptors are not 
contiguous with the rest of the os9boot modules but in block $3F.

Whichever is correct, I happen to have a NitrOS-9 boot file of $854C 
bytes which works with NitrOS-9 (Gale Force Enterprises) prior to our 
current project. This is larger than what Jim is reporting.