[Coco] OS9-L2 vs NitrOS9

[Tim Fadden]

I agree. Nitros9 is fine if you are a guru programmer and can create 
your own drivers and programs, But the OS is so stripped down there is 
little left of any use other than to manipulate the os.

I personally would prefer to go a bit slower, and have everything at 
hand.  If I wanna go fast I get on my vista64 machine.

Now much trouble would it be for the people with the know-how and source 
to create the drivers/software to use the new stuff on OS9L2, the 
ORIGINAL coco3 os9 with tons of software available for it.

No disrespect to those who have spent countless hours tweaking and 
creating Nitros9, but I think they have tweaked themselves into a corner.

Tim


George Ramsower wrote:
> I'm curious about this:
>
> Nitros9 is somewhat faster than OS9 and requires a Hitachi 6309 chip. 
> Of course, there's Nitros9-6809 but still, it's Nitros9.
>
> In recent times, some folks have introduced new hardware which is 
> really cool stuff but, the drivers and whatever other software 
> provided in the package claim to be  Nitros9 stuff.
>
> There are a few of these hardware things that interest me. Next month, 
> I'm getting three of those Pupo style? keyboard things to put a PC 
> type keyboard on a coco.  It's a Plug-N-Play thing that will work. I'm 
> almost out of keyboards now.  I think it's Cloud 9 that handles or 
> makes those. It would eliminate that darned, fat and cumbersome ribbon 
> cable I use to relocate the Coco keyboard.
>
> The vendors which have other products that interest me, advertise they 
> provide Nitros9 drivers.
>
> This is why I haven't acquired any of the latter items available to 
> date. I have asked the vendors if those drivers would work on my OS9 
> L2 system and haven't received replies.
>
>  So there are two questions in this post...
>
> 1. Will a Nitros9 driver work on a Mircroware OS9 system on a 64K CC  
> or a CC3?
> 2. Have we abandoned OS-9?
>
>  I suppose if #1 is FALSE and  #2 is TRUE, then I'm in real trouble. I 
> think it would take me months to convert to Nitros9, given the time I 
> have available. I'm using three cocos at this time. One has a hard 
> drive, the CNC coco is not just a CNC coco. The ports are versatile 
> and I have numerous OS9 boot disks with special boot files, startups 
> and software(B09) dedicated to the task at hand. Some use graphics. 
> Converting all this stuff to Nitros9 would be a monumental task I 
> think. The third coco is a 64K unit and does simple tasks for my 
> house. I use OS9 on that one also. I have about a dozen special boot 
> disks for that one.  The computer with the hard drive only has three. 
> The CNC coco has now has fourteen boot disks. Only two operate the 
> milling machine. The rest do suff like  operate my darkroom/enlarger, 
> monitoring the weather(looking for water), turning lights on and 
> off... and more
>
>
> Heck! It seems I"m being left in the dust behind the pack while using 
> OS9 L2...... Dangit!
>
>
>
> George
>
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