[Coco] New upload to clubltdstudios.com

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 23 Aug 2007 at 23:31, Alex Evans wrote:

> 
> --- Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > To "separate" the OS-9 part from the GEMDOS part would, I think, be
> > a major undertaking.
> > 
> > As far as I know, OS-9/68K was written in C, so reverse engineering
> > it would be painful.
> 
> 
> Actually OS-9/68k started with automated translation of 6809 assembly
> with additional work being done in 68k assembly (including fixing the
> original code so it would actually work).  It was OS-9000 (including
> the 68k version which was written in C).
> 


That is what I thought happened. Back in the late 80's a tool that Motorola released called 
XLATE09  was used to translate 6809 code to 68000 code. It wasn't aclean trranslation but a 
useful one to hopefully save some time in porrtting from 6809 code over to 68000 code.

james