16 Oct
1998
16 Oct
'98
3:32 p.m.
Lawrence Walker wrote:
On 16 Oct 98 at 6:53, Allison J Parent wrote:
OS-9 Level One ran on all sorts of MC6809 boxes, from SWTPC on.
There were a number of hardware vendors that specialised in it,
one of the most notable being Gimix -- very nice cubes before the
NeXt. OS-9 Level Two requires at least 128k on the Color Computer
I don't know the requirements on other hardware. I've never run
OSK (OS-9 68000), though I know there were ports to Amiga and
Atari ST hardware among others. The Intel port I know little
about.
The Philips "standalone" CDROM systems that hook to a television
have a rommed OS-9 system embedded.
The newsgroup comp.os.os9 is still alive, though I have to browse
it through Dejanews, my ISP's newsfeed being worse than ever.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
< I think only the CoCos could use OS9
Coco's were not even intel powered. The CPU was the 6809, they were
plastic cased and bore no resembelence to the Tandy 1000(series) or
2000(series).
Coco's ran a resident basic and if you had a disk interface/drive OS9
was available.
Allison
Yep, I have the 3 models of CoCo as well as the 1000SX. I was commenting on
Russ Blakeman's msg. I'm still looking for the interface and drives so I can
use my m.2 and m.3 to check out OS9. I don't think m.1 can use it. There seems
to be a respectable amount of software that supports OS9.
ISTR also that there were other platforms that used it . Any idea what they
were ?