#: 11514 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    28-Jul-91  03:19:04
Sb: #you better read this
Fm: PaulSeniura 76476,464
To: all


I've tried to bite my tongue (or fingers as the case may be) before I typed up
this harsh message.  But several months is long enough, and I'm tired of
waiting.

Instead of writing CIS a small article about "How CIS Has Helped To Save My
Day", i.e. that contest they're running with free on-line time as prizes (and
other prizes I think), I think I'll write a scatheing article about HOW MUCH
MONEY I'VE WASTED here on this OS9 SIG in trying to ask y'all for some SUPPORT
and IDEAS for the projects I've told y'all about in various numerous text files
I've uploaded.

About the Timer Driver, for example: I cannot reach the various networks to ask
questions about how other OS9 machines might've implemented programmable timer
support, if anyone's done it at all.  I've shared everything I've found out,
put the ideas into text files uploaded to CIS and Delphi, and I get ZILCH
FEEDBACK on CIS.

Do you want me to go off and write some code that your machine may not accept?
For instance, if I provide a OS9P3 module, and your CoCo3 system already has a
module in your OS9Boot file by that name, YOU would NOT be able to use OUR
timer support.  You could rename your OS9P3 to OS9P4, but how does OUR OS9P3 go
out and search for the possibility of OS9P4 existing in order to install it?

Even more dangerous: What if I install/use SVC numbers in our timer support
that is ALREADY BEING USED by any other OS9P# extensions you might have in your
system?  WE NEED TO SET SOME STANDARDS, FOLKS, or I'm not going to be able to
share what I am going to write.

That is JUST the TIP OF THE ICEBURG I've been asking about.  What should I tell
CIS now in that contest article: (a) I got some support or (b) I got dead air??

-- Thx, Paul Seniura (76476,464).



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