[Coco] The Mark Twain of operating systems...

[Aaron Wolfe]

There is one major problem with any attempt to port or translate
NitrOS9 to a more modern platform..  doing anything that can remotely
be seen to compete in a current marketplace calls attention to things
that we all like very much to have for our CoCos but that probably
cannot go on existing if they are given a lot of attention.  So... not
to stir the soup but I think this type of thing should be very
carefully considered if such an idea goes beyond the pipe dream phase.


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:01 AM, haywire666 at aol.com wrote:
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>> I wish someone would port nitros09 to x86, or better yet... ARM.
>> Small, lightweight, effecient, it would be an excellent netbook os also I think.
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> I wonder if there would be any purpose of taking the 6309 NitrOS-9 and recreating it in C, as an app that could run on top of other OS's for playing with, or as something that could run AS an OS (much more work at that level for drivers, etc.).
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> That's pretty much how OS-9000 (today known as OS-9 for XXX) came to be, as a Portable OS-9 that could be targeted easily to new architectures...
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>                -- Allen
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