emjej@uokvax.UUCP (08/20/84)
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uokvax!emjej Aug 20 12:06:00 1984
Just returned from the OS-9 Conference in Des Moines. Here are notes
gathered from the CoCo session:
There is a new release of CoCo OS-9. Same cost; has a device driver
for the cartridge with the ACIA, various fixes (including the baud
rate table). (Sigh--you'll still have to get someone else's device
driver to do disks reasonably.) If you've sent in your little card
from having bought the first release, you can get the upgrade for
$15.
Don't use {read, write}ln when using graphics--at least, unless you've
done a tmode -pause...
Someone in the audience seemed awfully certain that RS would be coming
out with a 68008 box.
It seems that the machine that Frank Hogg mentioned in Soft News #1
(the 128K CoCo with various hoses left in) is no longer among the living.
When future 6809 machines from Radio Shack came up on the discussion,
mention was made of the Motorola RMS graphics chip pair. (I *hope* this
means that those will wind up in such a machine.)
Software coming out:
the new release, as mentioned before
Microware Pascal (if this is the same as the non-CoCo OS-9 Pascal from
Microware, it is a P-code system with profiler, the ability to
mix procedures written in P-code with machine-language procedures,
a P-code compiler (a bit cumbersome to use, I've found), and
two flavors of P-code interpreter, one of which will swap, so
you can have programs with >(64K - sizeof interpreter) worth
of P-code)
DynaCalc (spreadsheet)
TSEdit (screen editor)
Scripsit
More news as it happens,
James Jones