Xref: utzoo comp.os.os9:1293 comp.sys.m6809:1333 comp.sys.tandy:2644 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: cocoiii@hobbes.ncsu.edu (John Vestal) Newsgroups: comp.os.os9,comp.sys.m6809,comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: what is the future of OS-9?! Keywords: CoCo3, Radio Shack, OS-9 Message-ID: <1990Nov9.014436.6959@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 9 Nov 90 01:44:36 GMT References: Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: cocoiii@hobbes.ncsu.edu (John Vestal) Distribution: usa Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 41 In article roccella@pilot.njin.net (Matthew Roccella) writes: > >Help!!! > I have heard that Radio Shack is going to discontinue to sell >the CoCo 3. Does this mean an end to us OS-9 users? As far as I know, >OS-9 is not really used much anymore. Everything has been replaced by >DOS or UNIX. Is this just a misconception (I hope)? Will Radio Shack >market another CoCo compueter that can utilize OS-9? Will software >still be available for OS-9, or will it be very hard to get. > I have just invested in purchasing a CoCo3 and the OS-9 >operating system. I don't want my system to be obsolete before I even >have a chance to master it! Does anybody know what's going on? Please >let me know. I like OS9 much better than DOS. It is MUCH simpler to >use than UNIX. I have MUCH MORE programming power with OS-9 than I >would with DOS. I don't want to see a good thing go! > > > > > Matthew Roccella Well, OS-9 is very much alive. It is currently available for Macs, Amigas, Atari STs, and I*M 386 and 486 machines. Tandy doesn't support it any more. (They have gone MS-D*S,) but Microware is still developing stuff for it. You may have heard about a couple of new 68000 machines that will so be offered by two companies that is a replacement for the COCO. One company is Interactive Media Systems, and the other is Frank Hogg Labratories. I don't have the telephone numbers, of addresses handy, but if you want to go OS-9 IMHO this is the direction to go. BTW Tandy stopped making COCO's a year or more ago (I think?) OS-9 stuff was was stopped then too. Hope this helps, cocoiii (John Vestal) -- ****************************************************************************** * cocoiii@catt.ncsu.edu Phone: (919) 831-2890 North Carolina State * * John Vestal P.O. Box 21537 Raleigh, NC 27607 University * ******************************************************************************