Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlhop.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!hlhop!smq From: smq@hlhop.UUCP (Steven M. Queriolo) Newsgroups: net.micro.6809 Subject: CoCo Food for Thought Message-ID: <312@hlhop.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 10:24:58 EDT Article-I.D.: hlhop.312 Posted: Thu Jun 21 10:24:58 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 06:24:15 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 36 OK, here are some queries that should spark some discussion in net.micro.6809: Well, I just configured my White CoCo with two drives, and OS9. The first drive is a white RS drive, the second, a shugart. (1) I ran the OS-9 drive test and found that the rpm's on the RS were about 300.1; the shugart was around 297.5 Disks written on one can be read by the other, so I don't see any problem, right now. But is this a problem for the future? Might I have trouble reading other people's disks? Is 1% rpm difference acceptable? (2) With OS-9, I haven't picked up a C compiler yet. What are the recomended ones? And, how close are they to K&R? (3) How about other language compilers for OS-9? Pascal? Ada? (4) How about a good editor that runs under OS-9? Maybe a vi or emacs clone. (5) Anyone port any other UNIX commands to OS-9? Maybe a package of routines? (6) Since files are timestamped, I am contemplating writing an incremental backup utility. Do any of the C's support getting the timestamp on files? (7) Why did OS-9 developers not use the actual UNIX command names? Were they trying to make it user-friendly? (8) What is the difference between t1 and p? Don't they use the same port? As I get deeper into OS-9, I'll post more items for discussion. -- Steven M. Queriolo AT&T Bell Laboratories ..........hlhop!smq