[Coco] The DOSes

[K. Pruitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer"
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] The DOSes


> NO NO NO!!!!!
>
> DECB is what you get when you turn the CoCo on.
>
> DISK Extended Color Basic. An interpreted Basic at that.
>
> The Disk ROM Inside the controller does NOT make ECB an OS!!!!!
>
> I was an Super Computer, Programmer working on Operating Systems starting 
> in 1967 and ECB just has some added disk access commands.
>
> My experience with Operating Systems goes back to ~ 1965 when I was 
> running a Computer that was not damaged when a huge bomb took out the 
> lower three floors of the building. That Super Computer was not damaged as 
> it was in crates ready to be shipped back. One year and a day earlier and 
> I would have been toast. Bomb was early Monday morning, I worked Sat and 
> Sun early mornings.
>
> Where did the name RSDOS come from. Perhaps some people trying and failing 
> to raise DECB to a level that is just incorrect.
>
> Yes I know RSDOS is a folder on RTSI where all the good stuff is for both 
> OS-9 and DECB.
>
> Even OS-9 folks who have a real operating system made an mistake in that 
> name.
>
> But then the NitrOS-9 people have destroyed the user interface (Communally 
> called a shell) with the very botched up ShellPlus. Not a good example now 
> of an OS.
>
> We built the computer a connecting logic together with a huge plug board.
> My loader program via teletype punched paper tape using each character as 
> an command was not a shell.
>
> Yes I am going to keep saying that until the end. I have too much 
> experience to stop.
>
> SHF
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "K. Pruitt"
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] The DOSes
>
>
>>
>> ----- 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.
>
>
> -- 


P.S.

Some people STRONGLY object to the phrase RS-DOS.


LOL!!!  Just kidding, Stephen.  Your response almost made me spit out me 
coffee.