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Subject: os/9-68000: R.I.P. - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 22:51:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 19 22:51:26 1983
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uokvax!andree    Dec 18 16:22:00 1983

A month or so ago, I mentioned (loudly) an os called 0s-9/68000. I recently
spoke with the company marketing it about purchasing a user-configurable
(ala CP/M-68K) copy. They have reversed their previous stand, and will not
be marketing such a version. They have no plans of marketing such a creature,
and won't even sell OEM licenses to anybody but the original manufacturer.
So you can't even shell out bucks for a version that way. The reason appears
to be that they are not interested in the business/home market, and are going
to stick with the industrial process control market.

This is a shame, as os-9/68000 is (in my opinion) a better system than Unix
V. With the vanishing of os-9/68000 from the user-configurable market, people
who wish to upgrade their s-100 (or whatever) bus system to a 68000 are left
with cp/m-68K as the only option. To bad. They could have made a lot of money.

	<mike