[Coco] The DOSes

[K. Pruitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Grubbs"
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:15 PM
Subject: [Coco] The DOSes


> Pardon my ignorance on the subject of CoCo DOS and really anything Disk 
> oriented. My original CoCo never received the gift of non-cassette 
> storage, and now as an adult the CoCoSDC is my first exposure to anything 
> other than cassette.
>
> I know that Disk Extended Color Basic is ECB with Disk I/O commands 
> implemented by the ROM inside the FD50x controller
> SDC-DOS seems to be a similar concept, though specific to the CoCoSDC
> I gather that HDB-DOS is again similar, only it is specific to the 
> DriveWire client? (correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> What is RS-DOS? And are there other common DOSes in use by the CoCo 
> community?
>
>
>

RS-DOS is just the stock DOS when you boot up with a controller with a stock 
tandy rom chip in it.  I don't know if that was ever an official name or 
not, but it goes back as far as Rainbow magazine at least.  I assume the RS 
stands for Radio Shack.