[Coco] Microware OS-9 for x86

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Frank Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:
> I wonder if the Radisys lawyers would have a field day if Nitros-9 was
> ported to a PC, with a few enhancements to take advantage of the more
> powerful hardware? Would be really nice if it could be made in such a way as
> to run CoCo OS-9 code too...
>

I think Radisys has little interest in what happens on the 6809
platform, but they might not like an implementation that runs on x86
very much.  Any x86 implementation would have to be very careful not
to use any source from the original OS-9, and even then there might be
patent issues.


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> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:02:10 -0500
> From: Allen Huffman<alsplace at pobox.com>
>
> At one time, there was "Personal OS-9" which was a lower cost package.
> Microware showed up at 1993 CoCoFEST! in Chicago and sold OS-9000 for PC for
> like $300 or $400, but that product is long gone.
>
> Today, it's a high end package for system porting projects -- thousands and
> thousands of dollars.
>
> Would RadiSys allow a hobbyist package? I doubt it -- there are only a
> handful of folks left maintaining OS-9 at this point, mostly serving legacy
> customers. BUT, it continues to get updated and revised and new features
> added.
>
> OS-9 lives on, but not at all like we knew it in the 80s/90s.
>
>
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