kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) (06/10/91)
cheselka@cactus.org (Mike R. Cheselka) writes: > [...] said there was a hardware limitation to the graphics > co-processor that prevented 256 colors at the high end of > the scale( that is, 720x480, etc.). Can this be gotten around? No, not without adding another video card. > What about the trouble with group permissions? > Does 2.4 support modules directories? > Is OSK being kept up with OS-9000? Dunno about the user/group. No module directories yet. Better ask all those on comp.os.os9, perhaps. > Will the MM1 come with Source Level Debugger( SrcDbg)? > Any of the other debuggers? Regular Debug and SysDbg, plus one in rom with its own screen/keyboard driver. Sysdbg is handy since it can link to a stub file with all your global variable and subroutine names, and use those. > Any news about the coming ANSI C compilier or X-windows for the MM1? Sounds like Q's for Microware again. IMO, an X client on the MM/1 might be okay, but a 68000-based server would probably be awful slow ;-). One piece of good news: the DMA hard disk driver works great if you format at 1:1 interleave. One guy with a WREN was getting 1.8megabytes/second under OS-9, which I wouldn't have believed possible. 1MB/sec will probably be more common with most HDs. > What communications programs will come with it? As far as I've heard, the MW Com and STerm... xmodem and B protocols. Others are being worked on, I hear. (crossposted to comp.os.os9) cheers - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>