Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!taco!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!uncw!session
From: session@uncw.UUCP (Zack C. Sessions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Radio Shake's coco multitasking?
Message-ID: <1086@uncw.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 17:25:47 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.164417.548@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <111@kbvan.com>
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina at Wilmington
Lines: 18

dave@kbvan.com (Dave Van Allen) writes:

>In article <1991Mar15.164417.548@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) writes:
[trimmed]
>Your refering to OS/9 for the coco.  Multi-task, yes - Discontinued - Yes.
>Cheap to buy, yes if you can find it.  And 'oh boy' you put a few coco's
>together in an os/9 network and if you close your eyes you think your
>running single-user on a Cray!  ;-o 

Minor nit, CoCo3s are not exactly dicontinued yet (but they might as well 
be!). The officla stock status is SOWG. (Sold Out When Gone).

And, while it would be neat to have an OS9 CoCo network, Microware
(the author of OS-9) never released the OS9 networking software for
the 6809 version of OS-9.

Zack Sessions
session@uncw.UUCP