[Coco] origins of OS-9

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:28 AM,  <wdg3rd at comcast.net> wrote:
> ----- "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Dave Kelly
>> <daveekelly1 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I think there is a part of the story that I haven't been able to
>> find:
>> >> how OS-9 became a powerful, full featured OS and not just a shell
>> for
>> >> running B09.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Perhaps when you're running a particle accelerator
>> .......................
>> > Or a jet turbine powered co-generation plant ...............
>> > Or the California Department of Transportation ...............
>> >
>>
>> what does this mean .......................
>> how is it useful .........................
>> or in any way relevant ........................
>
> Because OS-9 is most often used as an embedded OS in serious control systems.  Train routing systems.  Nuclear reactors.  Satellites.  The California Department of Transportation probably is running more OS-9 systems than ever ran on Color Computers.  NASA probably has more running than that.  And yeah, a whole lot of other industrial applications.  The hobbyist side was never the important side to Microware, and I can't blame them.  (Mind you, 90%+ is in government projects that I'd rather were in private hands, but that's just one anarchist's opinion).
>

I get that.  What I don't understand is what does this have to do with
how OS-9 went from being a support system for Basic09 to a full
fledged operating system?  Is there some relevancy that I am missing?


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