[Coco] Why haven't we got this?!!

[Tormod Volden]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> Again, it's pretty impressive stuff. The only reason we don't have this in Coco and OS9, is that every time someone starts a project to "expand" the capabilities of the Coco, in FPGA or RPi or any other "project" system, they get baraged with "That's NOT a Coco !" and "The Coco didn't do that !" and "I only want it if I can run my 1984 floppy drive that only runs when I clean the heads and beat on it with a hammer for 10 minutes" and then everyone else is wanting Windows 8 features and unreal additions.
> They usually just give up in frustration.

If you need the moral support from all the people who don't gonna lift
a finger to help you anyway, you won't get far ;)

SymbOS seems to be a one-man-show, which makes it even more
impressive. Talent and dedication for sure. There are other examples
of these one-man OSes, such as AtheOS. Unfortunately one great
programmer doesn't always scale into a productive community and lack
of applications limits the usefulness of these systems. I think
software compatibility would make the difference. If SymbOS could run
for instance multiple CP/M programs in different windows it would
help.

Tormod