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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Help needed to get started with OS-9
Message-ID: <3480@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 10:26:53 GMT
References: <11130.27234ab0@ecs.umass.edu>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <11130.27234ab0@ecs.umass.edu> daday@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>	I need to know what OS-9 expects as base hardware and at
>what addresses it expects to find it.  Price and availability
>would be just as useful.

(Sigh--perhaps I should've posted before this; mail bounced repeatedly.)

OS-9 looks in what are called "device descriptor modules" for memory-mapped
I/O addresses, so as long as the values there indicate where the devices
really are, it's happy.

OS-9 runs on a pretty wide variety of hardware.  If you want real live time-
slicing then you need a regular source of interrupts.

Pricing is best determined by calling marketing types (515-224-1929); while
you're on the phone, ask for a copy of *The OS-9 Catalog*, which is free and
contains a decent overview of the operating system.

	James Jones