[Coco] Another Radio Shack Article

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 07 January 2014 22:01:00 Allen Huffman did opine:

> On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> > I don’t think I had any appreciable influence in “calling off the
> > dogs” per se while I was at Microware. NitrOS-9 was practically
> > ignored by the company, who was by then focused on major consumer
> > markets like interactive TV, as well as their more traditional
> > commercial markets.
> 
> The last potential use of OS-9/6809 by Microware almost happened in the
> late 1990s. I was teaching an OS-9 session in Arizona (I think) and
> there was a guy there that was talking to Microware about using
> OS-9/6809 in cash register computers. At the time, they had systems
> that were being used at -- I think -- Wendy's. I think they may have
> already been using 6809.
> 
> So as I went through the class, I would try to point out things I knew
> to be different (number of open paths and things that didn't exist at
> all in the original 6809 version). He was a really cool and fun guy who
> drove a cool car. He took me out to dinner somewhere, but I can't
> remember more details.
> 
> I even told him about the NitrOS-9 project at the time, but as we know
> now, whatever he was talking about with Microware never happened.

'Twould have been cool, but linux has that market locked up tight these 
days.
> 
> I wish I could remember his name or his company.
> -
> Allen Huffman - PO Box 22031 - Clive IA 50325 - 515-999-0227 (vmail/TXT
> only) Sub-Etha Software - http://www.subethasoftware.com - Established
> 1990! Sent from my MacBook.
> 
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