Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bcrka451!cadnews From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui) Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? Message-ID: <1991Jan6.214258.6842@bnr.ca> Sender: myhui@bcrka325 Organization: bnr References: <14900021@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1991Jan6.183213.27136@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Jan06.204401.21579@turnkey.tcc.com> Distribution: comp Date: Sun, 6 Jan 91 21:42:58 GMT In article <1991Jan06.204401.21579@turnkey.tcc.com> jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes: >Gosh, a stroll down memory lane :-}!! Not that anybody really cares, but >OS/9 ran on a 6809 based system made by a company in Chicago called Gimix. Gimix computers were in turn closely related to the world's first hobbyist's 6800 based microcomputer manufacturer, Southwest Technical, who devised the SS50 bus, and, among other things, once sold a line of audio components as well, advertised in the same catalog as the computers.