#: 20465 S1/General Interest
    13-Oct-94  22:29:30
Sb: #Any suggestions?
Fm: Dick Watson 71320,2340
To: Anybody Home?

Sorry to say this folks, but this forum reminds me of an old age home for the
computationally challenged.  The last message that scrolled did so in 1991?!?

Seriously, as I sit here at my 486 WinNT speed burner, I prepare for my next
"opportunity to excel" at work.  Seems I've inherited a project that has to use
an OS-9 Lvl 1/BASIC-09 based communications handler module in a Programmable
Logic Controller.  A real museum piece by anybody's standards.  I didn't find
it exactly encouraging that there were NO messages in the 0S-9/6809 since the
last message scrolled.

Some questions:

Any suggestions where to lay hands on original reference documentation for this
stuff?  The module vendor provides some that they claim to have parroted from
Microware Many Moons Ago, but I keep feeling like they left about half of it
out to avoid printing costs.

I'm particularly interested in a) O/S interface to executables in case I end up
programming in ASM-09, b) BASIC-09 variable storage formats (i.e., what does
ADDR(var) point to?), c) most anything else relevant to OS-9 Lvl 1 and
BASIC-09.

Thanks for any help.  You might also reply by CIS or Internet email--this forum
looks pretty sleepy and I don't image that I'll stop by frequently to see no
messages since last stop.

Dick Watson 71320,2340
dwatson@page.mmc.com

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