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From: gawilson@watdragon.UUCP (Graham Wilson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Introductory Info for OS/9 wanted
Message-ID: <469@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 14:11:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 14:11:27 1986
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Reply-To: gawilson@watdragon.UUCP (Graham Wilson)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I  am seriously considering purchasing OS/9 for my CoCo II, but I would
like some information.  If anyone out there has answers for my questions,
please mail them to gawilson@watdragon.  Thanks.

- With the basic OS/9 package, is a full-screen editor (like vi) included?

- How complete is the C-compiler (anything left out)?

- How close to Unix is OS/9?

- I have one disk drive.  Is that enough?  Is there a substantial
  improvement with two disk drives?

- Are there any nroff/troff-like packages available?  Preferably they would 
  take advantage of dot-addressable printers (to get a multitude of fonts
  and print sizes - I have a DMP-105).

- What software is currently in demand (i.e. stuff which I could write to
  help pay for OS/9)?

Thanks in advance.  All pointers and tips are welcome.

Graham Wilson
gawilson@watdragon
280 Phillip Street, 
Building A3-133
Waterloo, Ontario.
N7S 2W3