[Coco] Sugestions for new NitrOS-9 versions

RETRO Innovations go4retro at go4retro.com
Wed Apr 2 22:09:45 EDT 2014


On 4/2/2014 8:31 PM, James L. Mazurek wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, RETRO Innovations wrote:
>
> ... Previous list of sugestions snipped.
>
>>
>> I know this is a CoCo list, but there was a long ago effort to port 
>> OS/9 to the Commodore SuperPET, and I would love to see this codebase 
>> run on that environment. It's not a feature per se, but would be a 
>> neat target.
>>
>> Jim
>
> I'd find an OS-9 port to the SuperPET an interesting project. Just a 
> note there is a working SuperPET within the Chicago Classic Computing 
> group. I'm sure if we aske Jack nicely he might be convinced to tote 
> it out to CoCoFest for examination.
Well, if someone wanted to play with getting it to work, VIC supports 
the MMU board as of v2.4
>
> Any clue how OS-9 might handle the odd memory switching to get at the 
> extra 64K?  I'm not sure if memory mapping works differently in 6809E 
> mode.
http://mikenaberezny.com/hardware/superpet/super-os9-mmu/

Jim



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