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From: riddle@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Mr. Paul Riddle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Survey
Message-ID: <1618@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 89 22:42:32 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os9
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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>  Name, and path to your site.

Paul Riddle; ...!uunet!umbc3!riddle

>  Type of system you run OS-9 on.

CoCo 3 512K; B&B Hard Drive Interface.

>  What do you use OS-9 for? (Software development, word processing, etc.)

I do a little bit of programming in C and 6809 assembly when I have
the time; Other than that I use uemacs/mroff for word processing.
OS-9 was a learning experience for me; It taught me what a "real"
operating system is, and prepared me for UNIX which I use on a day
to day basis now.

>  Significant programs you've contributed to public or private domain.

I've got some interesting stuff sitting around which I have passed
around locally.  Once I get around to it I'll see about posting it to
the net.

>  How others might obtain the fruit of your work.

Most of the stuff I have written is sitting on local BBSs around here.
I doubt if it has propagated any further than that.

>  Current and future projects you're working on.

I have a nasty habit of leaving projects unfinished to move on to something
new.  I'm writing some UNIX-lookalike tools to replace some of the
less flexible OS-9 commands (for example, one "cat" utility takes the
place of both "build" and "list").  I'm also writing a recursive parser/
interpreter in C, just to see if it can be done.

>  What programs would you hope to find and/or buy in the near future?

GNU Emacs, TeX, LaTeX.  All much large for the CoCo, of course, but
one of these days I'm going to buy a 68K machine.
Also a reasonable VT-100 emulator.

>  Other electronic forums you frequent (CIS, Delphi, etc.)

CoCo List Server (Listserv@pucc.princeton.edu), as well as umpteen
other newsgroups I can never keep up with.

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