[Coco] NitrOS-9 instant boot CoCo

[Roger Taylor]

I'm trying to gather the setups some of you OS-9/NitrOS-9 users have 
in place that allows you to hit the power button on your CoCo then 
have the OS-9 prompt within a few seconds, with no moving hard drives 
or MPI, or DriveWire cable (although that's a very nice idea).

Can the SuperIDE interface do this, and if so, what add-ons are 
needed?  What about a NItrOS-9 ROM that completely boots up from the 
ROM?  If so, can this ROM be put on a 32 kByte EPROM and replace the 
CoCo 3 ROM.  What about piggybacking an EPROM on the CoCo motherboard 
and clipping some pins on the old ROM?  Anyone done this kind of hack 
to avoid the infamous killer desolder job?



-- 
Roger Taylor