[Coco] OS-9 History

[Wayne Campbell]

I believe that OS-9 was designed to provide a base from which Basic09 could show the capabilities of the 6809 processor. In addition the RTS capability of the os was to show that a real-time os was possible with the 6809 as well.

Thierry Mella <thierry.mella at skynet.be> wrote:

>Greetings from Belgium,
>
>First of all, would you excuse my "english", but french is my mother 
>language.
>
>I wonder what is the history of OS-9 level one ? Is it just an attempt
>to create a "Unix clone" on the 6809 ? Or are there somes others reasons ?
>
>Why has it been developed ? For which market need ??
>
>Thanks a lot in advance for your help .....
>
>Thierry
>
>-- 
>I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
>
>
>--
>Coco mailing list
>Coco at maltedmedia.com
>http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco