#: 19699 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 11-Feb-94 23:22:44 Sb: The Future Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 To: All Dear Friends: While visiting with RICKULAND of Conect fame, we were discussing what was now the minimum requirement for a COCO OS9 system. For example, at CSJW we have: 1. A 2meg COCO 3 with a 6309, 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 drives, 20 meg harddrive, SC 2 with 4-in-1. 2. A 512k COCO 3 with 6309, 2 5-1/4 drives in a Tandy 2000 Case with an st252n with Disto SC-2 and 4-in-1. 3. A 512k COCO 3 with 6809, 3 Tandy 5-1/4 80 track dsdd, Mulitpak, a Disto MEB with HardDisk Controller, two 10 meg Bernoulli Drives, and soon a Tallgrass Tape Backup Unit. 4. A Northern Telcom DisplayPhone being used as a terminal on the COCO/2000 box. 5. EARS, the Voice and various esoteric hardware. I think it is clear that the 6309 is now basic operating standard. 512k minimum with 2 megs desirable. We have both Powerboost and Nitros9. Obviously, RS232 packs, etc. are also required equipement. I would like to know what hardware you are running. This is for several reasons: 1. What is being used so that programmers could write for this hardware. 2. So that the hardware vendors would know what hardware is still needed. 3. What software you would like to see. Obviously there are many of us in the 6809/os9 world who still want to see the Level 2 upgrade released. This is a mandatory project for the Users Group to undertake. 4. The SBF module from Microware. It was written for 6809, but never released. We should negotiate with with MicroWare to get any unreleased 6809 specific modules. 5. Certain RSDOS progras to be ported to 6809/OS9. Of course it should be noted that 6809 and 6309 should be considered interchangable as far as need. While OSK is the future, OS9 (6809,6309) is still a present reality and should not be abandoned. To do so would leave little reason for the 6809ers to support the User Group. Please take a few moments to respond to the questions raised in this posting, and feel free to post it where-ever you wish. If you would like, a postcard to: Brother Jeremy, CSJW Box 1903 Racine, WI 53401 with you opinions would be very helpful. The views expressed in this posting are not neccessarily those of the User Group, and I take full responsibility for them. Please respond. We need a large amount of replies if we are to get any meaningful guidance. With all best wishes, Brother Jeremy, CSJW OS9 User Group Treasurer #: 19694 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 09-Feb-94 13:09:33 Sb: #19567-#Screen program for OSK Fm: robert brose 72067,3021 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Hi Bob, The screen program still doesn't work right. I get error 103's sometimes and when I do a ctrl-w on a screen it gives a rdy -1 message and freezes. Could there be a problem running on 68000's with the bus errors? That could explain why forked programs crash also. Thanks, Bob There is 1 Reply. #: 19698 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 10-Feb-94 18:16:21 Sb: #19694-Screen program for OSK Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: robert brose 72067,3021 (X) Damned if I know...I do know that if I do a crl-w on my MVME system I get the same error message. Hmmm, do you have XON/OFF enabled? Try turning it off? I think the problem is with the ptyman stuff, not screen. Someone out there what to wade though that? However, I do use screen quite often on my MVME and so long as I don't do any xon/off stuff it all works fine. The system has SSM and I've had upto 10 virtual terminals running a variety of programs including BASIC, Ephem and ved. #: 19690 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 07-Feb-94 06:02:49 Sb: #19689-New Windio Module Fm: keith bauer 71102,317 To: KEITH H. MARCH 72733,2173 (X) > P.S. Is anyone working on a CD-ROM driver and descriptor for the MM/1? > also a fax send/receive program. > Mark of Dirt Cheap Computer Stuff has a CD-ROM that he sells that comes with the drivers. Joel Hegberg of Sub-Etha is working on a fax program for OS9/68000. Keith Bauer CIS:71102,317 Delphi:keithbauer Internet:kbauer@pids.com Via InfoXpress/OSK ver 1.01 How 'bout them Cowboys! #: 19691 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 07-Feb-94 20:02:31 Sb: #Print buffers Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: all If some MM/1 users are still having problems accessing the printer port due to the unbuffered parallel port on the mm/1...you might want to try putting a print buffer between the computer and printer. I just picked one up from Terry Laraway. He is selling these surplus units for around $50.00 (I think). He has various models...some are parallel to parallel, others serial to parallel (good for a coco). The memory on them varies between 64 and 512K. Terry can be contacted at: Terry Laraway's CoCo Etcetera 41 NW Doncee Drive Bremerton, WA 98310 Phone 206 692 5374 post All Print buffers 12 y send There is 1 Reply. #: 19693 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 08-Feb-94 06:59:32 Sb: #19691-#Print buffers Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Bob, > If some MM/1 users are still having problems accessing the printer port > due to the unbuffered parallel port on the mm/1...you might want to try > putting a print buffer between the computer and printer. I just picked one > up from Terry Laraway. He is selling these surplus units for around $50.00 I see you took my advice. Glad it worked for you! /************* /\/\ark ************/ (uploaded with InfoXpress Ver 1.01) There is 1 Reply. #: 19696 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 09-Feb-94 23:02:06 Sb: #19693-Print buffers Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 Yes, I did take your advice. Thanks. However, I still don't know if it works with the printer switch...the switch has db-25 inputs and the buffer box is hardwired with a centronics cable. Rather than re-wiring I just ordered a db25 to centronics converter...but it isn't here yet. BTW, did you send my board back yet? #: 19695 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 09-Feb-94 18:35:58 Sb: Boot Split 68K Fm: KEITH H. MARCH 72733,2173 To: 71076,76 (X) Carl: I did a search of database # 12 for "BSPLT68" could not find it. Could you upload it? Keith. OS9 Lives on, FOREVER?? #: 19697 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 10-Feb-94 17:54:59 Sb: OS/9 vs pSOS Fm: Cherry Valley Lang Tech 71055,2527 To: All Hi all, I was wondering how OS/9 compares to pSOS. Any opinions out there? Thanks, Steve Hirsch Press !>