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From: halkoD@batman.moravian.EDU (David Halko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Radio Shake's coco multitasking?
Summary: CoCo3 and Networking
Message-ID: <3541@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 3 Apr 91 04:10:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.164417.548@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <111@kbvan.com> <1086@uncw.UUCP>
Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <1086@uncw.UUCP>, session@uncw.UUCP (Zack C. Sessions) writes:
> dave@kbvan.com (Dave Van Allen) writes:
> 
> >In article <1991Mar15.164417.548@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) writes:
> [trimmed]
> >Your refering to OS/9 for the coco.  Multi-task, yes - Discontinued - Yes.
> >Cheap to buy, yes if you can find it.  And 'oh boy' you put a few coco's
> >together in an os/9 network and if you close your eyes you think your
> >running single-user on a Cray!  ;-o 
> 
> Minor nit, CoCo3s are not exactly dicontinued yet (but they might as well 
> be!). The officla stock status is SOWG. (Sold Out When Gone).
> 
> And, while it would be neat to have an OS9 CoCo network, Microware
> (the author of OS-9) never released the OS9 networking software for
> the 6809 version of OS-9.
> 

Doesn't mean that networking will not happen... you have serial port
communication which can be automated in script/binary files and
a few people playing around with parallel communications via extra
PIA ports...

		Dave Halko
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