6 Aug
2007
6 Aug
'07
3:49 p.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
And... Rumor has it that woodelf may have mentioned
these words:
*NO RUMOR* I said them!
> Well you do need mass storage for a real OS, and
the COCO disk
> drive is very questionable mass storage.
Why? The controller can support 720K DSDD 3.5"
drives, and OS-9 has the
drivers for them - I've found RS drive hardware no less reliable than
the other manufacturers of the day...
I think I had 360K, DSDD but only one floppy. Not the greatest
for compiling C programs.I tended to bump the controller every
so often so I was not impressed with rom slot used for the expansion
bus.
Even then, 180K (SSDD 40 track) is still enough to do
"real work" - I
had a boot disk with Rogue (think: nethack), Dynacalc (spreadsheet
program), TS-Edit (word processor - think: vi) and a few other apps all
on a 180K disk.
No, but NitrOS-9 is - see link above.
No coco here, so I never dug around the page for downloads.