#: 21016 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    22-Jun-95  20:06:47
Sb: #OS-9000 help
Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
To: All

OK, OS-9000 users.  New Guy here.  A few questions.

OS-9000 us up and running on my "486DX4/100", and I am slowly getting it to
obey.  I have some OS-9 experience, COCO I,II,III and OS-9/68000 on my MM/1a,
so I am not completely lost, but there are a couple little things I still can't
get to work.

1. Comm ports.  I can use T1 and T2.  Even had STERM talking to CIS when I had
the (internal) modem on T2 (COM2).  Then I moved the modem to T4 (COM4).  T2 is
now a simple serial port.  T2 still works, I can plug it into an external modem
or null-modem to the MM/1, but I cannot get OS-9000 to talk to T4.  Messydos &
Windoze and even OS/2 can find that modem, but OS-9000 cannot.  COM2 and COM4
are BOTH using IRQ3, but I am not trying to use them at the same time.

2. Printer.  I am using LPT1.  The address of the port seems right accord to
the BIOS and the information with the OS-9000 system. It even makes the lights
blink and puts the Deskjet through its INIT routine when I load and init
p.lpt1.  When I try to print something, the lights blink on the printer and the
system hangs. LPT1 works fine with the other operating systems, of course.
Current method of printing from OS-9000 is to pass it via null modem to the
MM/1.

3. Disk formats.  No big deal here, but I sure can't get the MM/1 and the
OS-9000 system to agree on what a "universal disk" is.  I CAN get them both to
read and write on a High density messydos disk, so I use that for transfers.

4. Graphics.  Anything available to get OS-9000 to speak to the Trident 94xx
VGA card in this beast?  I need a CGFX_VGA.L  lib (grin).

Suggestions welcome.

John Wainwright (johnreed@delphi.com   72517.676@compuserve.com)


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