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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
Message-ID: <22554@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 22:26:48 GMT
References: <3036@public.BTR.COM> <1991Jun17.141923.2835@sugar.hackercorp.com> <3100@public.BTR.COM>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3100@public.BTR.COM> valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>In article <1991Jun17.141923.2835@sugar.hackercorp.com>
>peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>>> Any real-time OS for embedded systems is supplied in source code form, 
>>> including Vrtx, pSOS, OS/9, and others. 

>>Their customers aren't the end-users?

>Depends on what you mean by end-user. 

The folks who receive the source code for such realtime embedded systems are
porting that code to their embedded hardware.  This is analogous to Commodore
receiving source code from AT&T for their port of UNIX.  The users of the
embedded system itself aren't getting the source.

>>There's no significant user base?

>I have propely mentioned OS/9, have I not?

So all those folks with OS/9 on their Tandy CoCo systems have the source to 
OS/9?  That would be interesting...
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