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 Whoa, jeez. I think i'll stick to commenting on CoCo stuff from now on. 
 I hope you didn't interpret that as a personal attack. 
 
Naw, did you see my similie?
  I was surprised to learn recently that there's a
SourceForge project
 to reverse-engineer, document, and extend OS-9 for the Coco:
     
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cocoos9/
 Also a package of command line utilities for Linux and MacOS X to
 access OS-9 disk images, and a cross-assembler:
     
http://sourceforge.net/projects/os9tools/ 
You might also be supprised that I am co-admin for os9tools and am a
registered developer for os9source!
Also Tim S. is porting OS9Tools to windows.
Also have you seen the osnine project on sourceforge?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osnine
This project is uses a 6809 emulation core to _run_ 6809 OS-9 modules on
the host operating system. I recently compiled it for Mac OS X and was
able to use OS-9 disasm to disassemble some OS-9 floppy disk drivers.
All without booting up my CoCo!
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tim lindner                    tlindner(a)ix.netcom.com