#: 4788 S15/Hot Topics
    30-Jun-90  21:48:25
Sb: #4776-Woe is 9
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Richard Ries 76057,3534 (X)

Rich - Congrats on your marriage!

Actually, things are looking pretty good. Microware has taken an increased
interest in seeing OS-9 used on personal computers, and we have neat hardware
upgrade paths becoming available soon.

I think MW discontinued Personal OS9 simply because buying it with Basic was
cheaper than buying Basic by itself. Marketing musta freaked out . But
the OS-9 version for the new machines includes the C compiler and Basic, which
is good news.

The windowing I'm working on right now. Started from scratch only in March, so
it's still got a ways to go; and I'm sure we'll see additions posted here as
time goes by. But I think you'll like it.

I'm sure others can give their own impressions of OSK, but in general the main
feeling is "fast" and "lots of room" . For example, I just os9gen'd a 57K
bootfile onto a floppy disk, from a hard disk modules dir and bootlist, in
under 15 seconds. A circles gfx demo which takes 30 seconds on a CoCo takes
under 5 seconds on the MM/1. Etc.

You'll feel right at home, too, with the commands... altho they have more
options. Like I use Dsave a lot with:
   dsave -er /d0/backup -d=900627

which means copy the current dir, Execute the generated commands, and Rewrite
any files with the same name, to the /d0/backup directory. And only do this on
files with dates equal or greater than June 27, 1990.

In other words... you'll be excited, I promise. kev