[Coco] [CoCo] NitrOS-9 on real CoCo (Was DriveWire 4)

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Fri Jan 5 18:43:32 EST 2018


On Friday 05 January 2018 18:28:45 James Ross wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:58:29 -0700
>
> William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
> > (Potential flamebait incoming.)
> >
> > People keep saying that OS9 is a paired down subset of Unix. I
> > understand why, too. Superficially, they are very similar.
>
> No flaming from me... very good points! And they sounded correct to
> me.
>
> I am going from memory of back in the day and it has stuck w/ me to
> this day. I recall it being called UNIX-like and compared to UNIX in
> different publications (if memory serves me, perhaps it was just a
> single article even?). And this was before the days of Linux/BSD were
> available where a mere mortal could run a real UNIX clone. Could only
> read about it in Byte magazine. So, I think that was some of the
> owe-and-wonder of OS-9 in my mind and perhaps for many of us CoCo
> users.
>
> I get what you are saying that it was inspired by UNIX. However, am I
> mistaken to say the the I/O is very much UNIX based? Everything from a
> programming perspective (userland) is just another file at some level
> (so, to speak). I am not well versed enough to really say, but the
> standard I/O’s / pipes and shells and redirection and all seemed to be
> very UNIX-like.
>
> Anyway, the very points you bring up is what would make a modern
> re-write of a NitrOS-9 interesting (even just as a hobby project), as
> apposed to another UNIX kernel.
>
> James
> --
> James Ross <JRossList at Outlook.com>

That rewrite, James, is Nitros9. Lots of bugs fixed. Faster even on a 
6809 and faster yet on a Hitachi HD63c09EP as a replacement cpu, around 
50 to 100% faster than the OEM Microware released versions.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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