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From: marc@wopr.UUCP (Marc Balmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: OS9/68K
Message-ID: <39@wopr.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 06:42:47 GMT
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D.Wade@sysd.salford.ac.UK writes:


> I too would like to try OS9/68K but in the U.K. the cost of it is slightly
>more than I paid for my STE512 and Phillips PM8833 monitor ........

OS-9/68K isn't that cheap (about 1500 Swiss Francs), but compare with any
other OS available for the ST:

- real-time
- multi-tasking
- multi-user capalities
- C development package
- Sculptor 4-th generation database
- Spread sheet and Wordprocessor
- A whole bunch of utilities
- UUCP and many other software packages are PD and absolutely free!

So it's definitely worth its price - I think it's better to pay for it
than to get a buggy and malfunctional so-called operating system like
TOS intends to be...

>on my personall shopping list. I guess those who use it either work for
>the authors and don't pay, or use it for commercial use.

In Switzerland there are many OS-9 Users which don't use it for commercial
purposes but just because of the many nice features.

Marc, marc@wopr.uucp