[Coco] DECB -> Pi2/3

[Bill Gunshannon]

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From: Coco [coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] on behalf of Dave Philipsen [dave at davebiz.com]
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 11:19 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] DECB -> Pi2/3

I had one of those demo CDs once but never played with it since I already had OS9000 and the C compiler...

Dave

On Mar 6, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

>> On Mar 6, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
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>> And, I'm not sure if my memory serves me correctly but, wan't OS9/68k actually created in assembler and then OS9 for 68000 was written in C?
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> 1977 (?) - RT68
> 1980 - OS-9/6809
> 1983 - OS-9 ported to 68000
> 1989 - “Portable OS-9” written in C (OS-9000) for X86 and 68020 and above (or was it 030?)
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> …then sometime in the mid 90s it was ported to Power PC, and all hell broke loose with StrongARM, Sparc, MIPS, SH-3, SH-4, and probably others I have forgotten. All of those were the portable C version, OS-9000.
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> For the longest time, you could request a “demo” CD of OS-9/x86 … “hidden" on the disk was a zip (or .tar, probably) file that contained the full command line Ultra-C compiler ;-) At that point in time, all development was done on Windows (Unix had been dropped). That zip file was for the hobbyists, as it was not time bombed like the Hawk IDE’s compiler for Windows was. Anyone could snag that demo CD and get it up and running and be coding in C.
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Pretty sure I have one of them around here somewhere.
I'll have to look for it.

bill