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    15-Dec-90  21:56:15
Sb: #8767-#FORTRAN available?
Fm: Mike Passer 72750,420
To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)

Kevin,

And now they're going for $10.00 at Radio Shack bargain tables!  Too bad Tandy
never decided to market FORTRAN for the Coco! :>

I was actually hoping that someone out there in OS9 land had a dormant license
that he was willing to sell me, but, I guess if it were that dormant, they
wouldn't be looking _here_.

I've heard about a small FORTRAN source for Unix, but don't know where on earth
to start looking for it (besides the Unix and Computer Language Forums).  I
have the MW C compiler (still waiting for Radio Shack to mail me my cc2 and one
pass compiler modules :>) and could give the old college try at porting it over
(no, I don't value my sanity).

On another subject, after reading the OS9 technical information section in the
Level II manual, I wondered if there might be a modified system out there
somewhere that does something besides print the "FAILED" message when system
startup doesn't go as planned--maybe a hex code saying how far along it was, or
something along those lines?  Also, it says that the kernel initializes the
system, inolving "Loading any required modules that were not loaded from the
OS-9 Boot file."  Does this mean that I could theoretically break up my boot
and put the files in the execution directory (I know this is not a good idea -
8k blocks) and that OS9 would load them for me?  Is this what happens with
grfdrv, and, if so, why can't it go into OS9Boot?  (If you hung on through this
much rambling, take a break!)

Ths again!

Mike

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