[Coco] Brother Jeremy's OS-9 Level 3 (are you out there, Jeremy?)

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 12 Apr 2007 at 20:57, Allen Huffman wrote:

> On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:39 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> > I thought that OS9000 was the first port of the 6809 version to the
> > 68K? Or was that the port to the x86? I know the 68000 version would
> > garner the  label of OSK.
> 
> OS-9/6809 was first in 1980, then it was ported to 68K assembly 
> around 1983.  OS-9000 was the rewrite in C for the 386 and 68020+ 
> processors in 1989.
> 
> > released due to Tany's decission to cancel the CoCo. I thought the 
> > beta testers were under a Non Disclosure Agreement. Then again as
> > time has progressed since this all happened and the legends and
> > myths may have grown.
> 
> Brother Jeremy never was part of the project, but was the one person
> championing it's release (even with his song to Keving Darling, "Set 
> the upgrade free".  Ah, good times.)
> 
>   -- Allen

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Allen 

Thanks for the correction and improving understanding. 

james