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[Frank Pittel]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:34:57PM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 02:00 PM 3/24/2009, you wrote:
>> Tell you what. I'm not even going to waste time asking any more questions.
>> This is the fourth time someone has had a snide comment, and since I don't
>> seem to know how to ask an intelligent question, I won't bother the list
>> with my babbling.
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> Bill, don't run off.  I think you hit the all-time most unpopular  
> statement and it rattled a few cranky people, that's all.  No biggie  
> around here and nothing personal.
>
> Just saying " It doesn't work " doesn't leave any starting point for  
> someone to help you get it working.
>
> HOWEVER, if anybody agrees with you about the NitrOS-9 disks being a  
> pain in the butt, it's me.  Wow.  Only 10+ different  
> versions/formats/builds, and if that isn't enough to scare you, putting 
> in a 35-track SS copy of one of the .dsks and getting the OK prompt after 
> typing DOS is just too much for me.
>
> But that's not it!  Let's say you actually found a .dsk that starts to 
> boot.  You see a long string of "......"'s following by the Crashola 
> message.  Have you got to that point yet?  :)
>
>
> -- 
> Roger Taylor

I like the approach taken by Cloud9 and their Superide adaptor. HDB-dos gets
loaded into one of the internal flash roms and Nitros is stored on a CF card that
you install. At boot an autoboot basic program runs and presents a menu allowing
the user to choose between hdb-dos and nitros-9.

No floppy needed!! :-)