Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!unido!ira.uka.de!smurf!altger!stasys!fkk From: fkk@stasys.sta.sub.org (Frank Kaefer) Newsgroups: comp.os.os9 Subject: Re: what is the availability of os-9 software? Keywords: multiview, other good os-9 software Message-ID: <2261@stasys.sta.sub.org> Date: 13 Apr 91 12:17:24 GMT References: <1834@mwca.UUCP> <819@recco.chi.sub.org> <1841@mwca.UUCP> Organization: Stasys UUCP Server, Starnberg, Germany Lines: 25 bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) writes: |In article <819@recco.chi.sub.org> weo@recco.chi.sub.org (Wolfgang Ocker) writes: |>From CUMANA (GB) an OS-9/68000 Professional package for the ST |>including BASIC09, SCULPTOR (multiuser database system), DYNACALC |>(spreadsheet) and STYLOGRAPH (text processing) is available for about |>$1000. |Just a clarification - there are (at least) two ports of OS-9 for the |ST. We (Microware) sell one version, Cumana sells another version. |Price and included features may differ...they are both inherently OS-9, |however, and so they would both have binary compatibility with all |other OS-9/68xxx platforms. Yes, thats true. I have a license for both ports, but I must say that the Cumana OS-9/68k is far better than the version distributed by Microware. Cheers, Frank -- | Frank Kaefer | fkk@stasys.sta.sub.org | Starnberg, Germany | | Compuserve: 72427,2101 | Internet: fkk@Germany.Sun.COM | | unido!sunde!fkaefer | postmaster@Germany.Sun.COM |