Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!ub.d.umn.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!rh2y+ From: rh2y+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Russell E. Hoffman, II") Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc Subject: Re: 680x0 PC's... Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 90 15:54:09 GMT Sender: mwm@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 Approved: info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu > is OS-9, as an operating system, any good? Well, yeah, we (OS-9 users) seem to think so. Check out comp.os.os9 and see for yourself. OS9/68000 is real-time, multi-user,multitasking. It is very small and relatively fast. (Kernal is only about 48K) It supports any number of various I/O devices such as SCSI, DMA, ST-506, and anything else you can probably think of. Windowing environments exist on those computers that have graphics capability. Support is fantastic. You can often talk to Microware employees themselves on the Internet and get your most complex questions answered. Facilities exist for Ethernet support, UUCP, ARCnet, and other Unix-type stuff. Mind you, OS9 is NOT a Unix clone. There are some things OS9 can do that UNIX can NOT do (or at least not do very well). Granted, there are still a few things UNIX can do that aren't so easy to do in OS9, but those are mostly things you don't really end up doing in most OS9 environments anyway. OS9 is (sort of) targeted at small multiuser setups (like maybe 1 to say 32 users or so.) Most systems that run OS9 come out of the package with the ability to support four users on serial ASCII terminals. For any more details, contact Microware at: Microware Systems Corporation 1866 N.W. 114th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50322 (515) 224-1929 Disclaimer: I do not work for Microware, I am just a very satisfied customer. Russell Hoffman Carnegie Mellon University rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu