Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <1991Apr25.093246.21887@ncsu.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 09:32:46 GMT References: <1991Apr18.161346.3409@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr18.174928.21079@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Apr20.130639.27962@ncsu.edu> <1137@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Apr23.192046.21177@ncsu.edu> <1152@cbmger.UUCP> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 26 peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >>>Kevin wrote: >>>> Not only does OS-9 run on the basic CD-I chips, but also a realtime Unix >>>> clone with MMU protection and paging, GEM, and windowing Tripos. >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> Anyway, this sounds interesting. Could you tell more about this new >>> incarnation of Tripos? >> >>You'd have to ask METACOMCO, and also the company (forgot its name - can >>dig it up if necessary) which did this particular port. I would suspect >>that the current Amiga OS is far beyond whatever Tripos looks like now. > >Now I'm confused. I interpreted your first message (see first citing) that >way that Tripos will be available on the CD-I hardware, or already is. >But your latest comments don't seem to confirm this. Now what's the deal? Didn't mean to confuse. I try to be exact in my wording where possible. As I wrote, Tripos has been ported to the basic CD-I chips, which are the 68070 cpu and VSC video/system-controller. To run on a CD-I _player_ would require the usual change in some I/O drivers. Might have been done already; altho I do not know if it has or not. The company was IMSC, btw. Sidenote: I think it'd be kinda neat if the Amiga OS already had DIG, and could be used on other gfx platforms. regards - kevin (going out of town for a few days)