[Coco] more that one shell from an external terminal(update)

[George Ramsower]

  I was just about to respond to Gene's post on this matter. This leaves 
me in the dust until I get my other coco working again. It will be about 
a month before that happens. WOP.... waiting on parts.
  No problem. I'll just keep plugging till then.
  The coco I'm using right now does not have room for another card in 
that cabinet, it only has one 3.5 inch drive and this PC has no 
floppies. I looked through my drives, on hand, and the only two I have 
are 1.44 only drives.
  The other coco has two floppies and 3 com ports that can be connected 
to this PC via a DB9 to USB converter.
  That coco also has a Ken-Ton SCSI board and I have three drives to 
work with to find out if I can get one of them to work...to replace the 
one that broke.
  Dangit!! I hate when things break down. So far, both my CM-8s have 
died and the hard disk. So, in time, I'll be up and running as before. 
Then I can easily get files back and forth between this PC and those cocos.
  I'm thinking of building another cabinet for my CNC coco so I can add 
to it. Right now, it's in an antique modem case. However, I may not need 
another case for that coco if I do get DWire working on it but, that 
won't happen until I get the broken Coco working again.

George R.


On 9/18/2015 8:07 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> This is correct, dw4 requires some bug fixes to the kernel that don't exist
> for os9.  It *might* be possible to use dw3 (or dw4 in its "dw3 only" mode)
> with os9 to have disk access, I'm not sure.  Also not sure if anyone ever
> built the drivers for stock os9 anyway. For dw4 functionality like virtual
> terminals or multiplexed serial channels you must have nitros9.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 8:59 PM K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
> I am fairly certain that you're going to have to move up to NitrOS9 to
> utilize DW4. I do believe I saw that posted by somebody in the know, that
> DW4 was just too far along for stock OS9 any longer. Somebody please correct
> me if I am wrong about that.
>
> DW4 and NitrOS9 work together right out of the box. I think most if not all
> of the people who wrote and/or are writing it are here, so you have the best
> support group possible to help with any transition issues you may encounter.
>
> Drive NitrOS9 for a couple of weeks and the speed difference alone will make
> you a fan. You definitely want that DW4 connectivity.
>