kottke@puff.UUCP (Richard J. Kottke) (03/05/86)
> From gawilson@watdragon.UUCP (Graham Wilson) Wed Feb 26 13:11:27 1986 > - With the basic OS/9 package, is a full-screen editor (like vi) included? NO! there is a built in line editor which is pretty bad - it's only good point is that it error checks your program as you exit from it. Maybe you could write a vi -ish editor and sell it. PLEASE! > - How complete is the C-compiler (anything left out)? ?????? (You'll have to ask somebody else; I can't afford it yet.) > - How close to Unix is OS/9? Rather close in philosophy; many things will be familiar to a unix user. I have renamed many of the commands and this helped a lot; send me mail if anyone wants details on how to do this. > - I have one disk drive. Is that enough? Is there a substantial > improvement with two disk drives? Things can be done with one disk drive, but for C the word is that two is nearly essential. Many of the commands almost require two drives and it is really necessary for the storage space. > - Are there any nroff/troff-like packages available? Preferably they would > take advantage of dot-addressable printers (to get a multitude of fonts > and print sizes - I have a DMP-105). Once again, this would be a marketable thing to write. > - What software is currently in demand (i.e. stuff which I could write to > help pay for OS/9)? Utilities are in some demand (such as as good visual editor and a nroff pack- age) but applications programs are what is really needed. Programs to do anything would be good; spreadsheets, wordprocessing, a spell-checker, GAMES, dbm's, even a good symbolic debugger would be welcome. This market is rather fresh and unexplored - I suggest you purchase an issue of 'The Rainbow' and write to some companies that are selling os-9 software. They could answer this question far better than I. > Thanks in advance. All pointers and tips are welcome. > Graham Wilson > gawilson@watdragon > 280 Phillip Street, > Building A3-133 > Waterloo, Ontario. > N7S 2W3 You're welcome; feel free to send mail. Richard Kottke kottke@puff.wisc.edu uwvax!puff!kottke University of Wisconsin at Madison