[Coco] OS-9 History

[Allen Huffman]

On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:17 PM, 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 ?

Greetings, Thierry.

There are a few ex-Microware folks on this mailing list, so when we get a moment we may be able to answer questions. I worked for Microware after the 6809 days - 1995-2007. They were all 68000 and x86 when I started, then ported to PowerPC, StrongARM, SH-3/4, and several others. But the heart remained the same OS-9 that started on the 6809 in 1980.

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