[net.micro.68k] OS-9/68K news

emjej@uokvax.UUCP (12/28/84)

Huzzah! The Smoke Signal 68008 board came in today, with OS-9/68000
Level One. I'm going to have to wait on someone who knows something
about hardware (as opposed to me) to get the board going, but in the
meantime, I'm very happy to see some of the things in the manuals:

	a real live make
	a shell that knows about quotes, and that does a
		certain amount of filename expansion
		(I could make some arguments about whether the shell
		is really the place to do this, but I'm sure every-
		one's sick of seeing the same arguments in net.unix*;
		I *am* going to write up a paper on the error of
		making OS-9 tools too slavishly imitate Unix, rather
		than making use of OS-9's advantages over Unix)
	the stuff they sell separately for the 6809
		(the "file-handling toolkit"), in some
		cases with improvements (qsort will use whatever
		memory is available, for example)
	scred
		(not a great screen editor, but at least it's
		there)
	pipes don't blindly return OK without doing anything to
		Get/SetStat calls

etc.

					James Jones