[Coco] Windows vs. Linux (was 512K upgrade)

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 10 March 2014 16:20:17 Wayne Campbell did opine:

> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 March 2014 17:02:17 Nick Marentes did opine:
> > 
> > Harry Hurst said:
> > > > What does this have to do with CoCo's? Nothing? Why are you all
> > > > hanging onto this thread then? You're filling up my email with
> > > > this crap, and the worst part is that none of it is going to
> > > > change anyone's opinion. PLEASE take this discussion elsewhere,
> > > > or better yet, drop it.
> > > > 
> > > > HH
> 
> Harry, I can understand your angst concerning this, but this is only one
> thread among many. I seriously doubt it is "filling up" your inbox. I
> use gmail, and when I don't want to read a thread, I simply click the
> checkbox next to the thread and click the trash icon. Less than 0.5
> seconds and it's gone. So, why get all flustered?
> 
> > You've got my vote. I thougt I was subscribed to the wrong list for
> > awhile there.
> > 
> > Besides... we know RS-DOS rulez don't we?   :)
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > Snirk. :)  Except to those of us who use nitros9 and know better...
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> LOL Gene. I just had to respond. Hear,hear! :)
> 
> Wayne

:) To me, there is something almost magic when I can convert the line feeds 
to CR's, send it to the coco, and build the exact same code on the coco. My 
c syntax checker, cntx being a prime example.  Works both ways, I wrote the 
first version of my serial mouse driver on the coco. Convert the cr's to 
lf's, and it is now in the nitros9 repo, along with a slightly fixed 
L51.defs file.  The original had one short bit pattern, and an off by one 
error in it.  And someday I'll have to fix the multivue gshell as I think 
it has the same off by one in it.

The one thing I have not yet found is where the 10 byte packet the mouse 
driver returns as specified in L51.defs, turns into the multivue docs 32 
byte packet they write about.  That is likely where I would need to do that 
fix so all 3 buttons of a serial mouse work for multivue.  They did at one 
time but I don't believe they all work now.

Cheers, Gene
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