[Coco] origins of OS-9

[Aaron Wolfe]

>
> Have you considered contacting Allen Hoffman? He at onetime worked for
> Microware.. I think. Also Boisy may have some input here... not too sure about
> that either, but they sure do know about the OS itself.
>

I've spoken with Boisy at length about this, he confirms that what is
known sounds right but doesn't have inside knowledge of how the
Basic09 project lead to OS-9.  I'll send Allen a note and see if he
can add anything.

It's really not a critical point, but I find it strange that the
origin of OS-9 is explained (in several places) as "well, we made
Basic09 and thought we better make an OS to go with it".  It's like
Micro$oft saying "well we had this Word processor so we thought we
better create Windows".   If OS-9 was released even initially as a
simple way to get Basic09 running, it might make more sense, but from
everything I can find OS-9 was a fairly complete OS from v1.0 that
could do much more than launch B09.

Maybe Microware got Motorola to foot some of the bill for developing
OS-9 by claiming it was part of the Basic09 project?  just another
wild theory :)

-Aaron



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