Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!andree From: andree@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.6809 Subject: Re: OS-9 an TRS CoCo - (nf) Message-ID: <4280@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 23:34:11 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.4280 Posted: Thu Dec 1 23:34:11 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 04:17:31 EST Lines: 22 #R:seismo:-42500:uokvax:3500016:000:814 uokvax!andree Nov 30 18:34:00 1983 Hi mike, The RS os-9 is indeed the microware os-9 that's been around for a while. It should have the standard microware C compiler, which by all reports is tolerable. The major difference (that I know of) is 35 instead of 40 tracks on the disks. I understand this is because the RS disk zeroxing machines can only copy 35 track disks. This 35 track magic number is wired into the system, and not part of the device driver, so if you buy non-RS drives (highly recommended) you'll have to right new drivers to get more tracks. The system seems tolerable, except for the SLOOW floppy. Don't even bother trying to run with one drive. It will only disgust you. Microware claims that the 68000 version of os-9 should appear on end-user machines sometime early next year. This might be worth waiting on. Luck,