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From: grunwald@Tokyo.ira.uka.de (Grunwald Betr. Tichy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: OS-9 archive sites...?
Keywords: archive
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Date: 25 Oct 89 13:28:14 GMT
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in Article 131 of comp.os.os9: Robert Binkley asks:

> I was wondering if the exists an archive site for OS-9 software?
There is an user group in USA, in Europe (EFFO) and TOPS, which have a lot
of interesting sources.
> I am VERY interested in finding a replacement shell (csh?) and vi for OS-9.
The shell is under development, but it is not the csh. Ask Wolfgang Ocker,
Lochhauserstr. ?, 8039 Puchheim, BRD for further details. I don't know, if vi
is available, but micro-emacs 3.9e+ is (I use it day by day).
> I understand there is a PD package called TOPS(?) from Germany,
> but I don't know any more about it...
TOPS implemented a lot of utilities, a mail system and a Window system. The
last runs on the Atari ST (monochrom Monitor!, quite good with OS9, far
better than these OS/2 (= half OS) toy computers for the infantil manager.
The only thing you miss is the prestige having a PC (= Primitiv Computer)).
It is the MGR-System from Bellcore developed for the SUN Workstation.
They have also a good UNIX-compatibility lib and RCS (Revision Control
System from Prof. Tichy).
Other parts are the PTY-Drivers and the PTY-Manager posted sometime ago in
this Newsgroup.

I hope this Informations help you. Goog luck Knut Grunwald.