[BASIC-09]
> Never even heard of that one, but then,
I've never seen or used OS/9 I'm my
I am not suprised, It wasn't that
common.
> life. Never owned a Dragon or any other
6809 box.
I ran it on my CoCos. In generla, the OS-9 languages were very nice for
an 8-bit machine.
In the early 1980s I worked for a fork lift manufacturer, and
we were
two persons who wrote a simple ISAM file database and a warehouse stock
control system for a Swedish 6809 machine from a company called Primal
Data. I have no idea why they chose that name, but their machines were
well made. They had MMUs so I think we had 1 MB of memory in them. We
wrote the software in Pascal under OS-9, some of it in Microware Pascal,
later we discovered another Pascal, the name of which escapes me at the
moment. I remember it compiled to machine code instead of p-code, and
had a lot of bells and whistles which we found useful, although slightly
buggy as opposed to Microware's Pascal which was quite solid IIRC. We
managed to work two or three people at the same time on one machine.
Compiling was dreadfully slow with only 5 1/4" diskettes and the
machines were much nicer when we had 10 MB hard disks (Rodime) put in them.
/Jonas