[Coco] OS-9 History

[Keith Clark]

Allen, really until 2007?  Did they ever release a version of 'os-9' for a
standard pc?  I'm a little out of touch.  OS-9 was something I only dreamed
of back in the 80s.  I'm just discovering it now via VCC.


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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