28 Feb
2004
28 Feb
'04
2:45 p.m.
I'm looking for information on the OHIO-DOS
system.
Has anyone some sources, programs or historic info
on this OS for the 6502?
Right now I'm rebuilding an 65816 system (EC65K) which
was published in 1986 by Elektuur/Elektor and was running
OHIO DOS 65D V3.2.
Ohio Scientific Instruments (OSI) had a 6502 OS in the late
1970's and early 1980's called OS-65D. They were bought by
MA/COM (sometimes mistyped as MA-COM) who carried on for a
couple of years. I don't know whether they licensed it to
any other vendors, but you might Google for OS-65D. Also,
OS-65U was their multi user OS. I'm a "fan" of OSI, if it
turns out that this is the OSI OS, I would be interested to
know the story of Elektuur/Elektor and how the old (and to
be honest, rather crude) OS was being used in 1986.
Bill Sudbrink