emjej@uokvax.UUCP (08/20/84)
#N:uokvax:3500044:000:1533 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