Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsd!knudsen
From: knudsen@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (michael.j.knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: OS-9 Level Two Upgrade?
Summary: Yes but no
Keywords: os9
Message-ID: <12344@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 18:41:02 GMT
References: <25933ed9:35comp.os.os9@vpnet.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <25933ed9:35comp.os.os9@vpnet.UUCP>, akcs.pfc@vpnet.UUCP (Paul Frank Covello) writes:
> I have been using OS-9 Level Two (6809) version 02.00.01 for quite a long
> time. In that time I have discovered (thru rainbow/CIS) many many bugs
> in the DOS. I am wondering if there are (or if there are plans for) a new,
> upgraded version of OS-9 (6809) Level Two any time soon, or is microware
> going to just dump us off and leave us hanging here to de-bug the DOS
> entirly ourselves? (I send a "Service Card" to Tandy, no responses).

THere was an upgrade worked on, with many improvements as well as
bug fixes, but Tandy lost interest and withdrew support, and M'ware
has said the heck with 8-bit processors.  Maybe you'll see some good
patch files in public domain, that essentially overwrite every byte in
your original modules.

Sending in your Tandy card is like throwing an empty beer can at
a Commie tank (if there are still any Commie tanks in the world :_)),
tho we did get two upgrades to Level 1 out of them.

Hmmm, maybe should go on comp.sys.tandy and take a poll,
whether buyers of "real" (PC) computers with a "real" OS (MSDOS)
ever got any upgrades.  Of course Tandy comes out with new 1000-series
models so often that their "upgrade" path is probably "buy this year's
machine, give your kids the old one."
-- 
Mike Knudsen  knudsen@ihlpl.att.com   (312)-713-5134
"Round and round the while() loop goes;
        Whether it stops," Turing says, "no one knows."
Your SELF may not be all you've got, but it's the last thing you'll lose.