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Subject: Re: Re: OS-9 Query - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 14:54:00 EDT
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Re OS-9/68000: it exists, it is indeed put out by Microware, and it can be
bought. An outfit called Hazelwood Computer Systems sells it with their
(admittedly idiosyncratic) 14-pin extension of SS-50 boxes. Smoke Signal
Broadcasting is selling 68008 boards on the SS-50 bus, and should be offering
OS-9/68000. Gimix should be following suit, though I think they may be
looking at another bus, the SS-50 having reached its limits some time back.
If you want to roll your own, you can get a package with object modules
for of OS-9/68000 Level One, source for what's supposed to be enough stuff
to give you an idea of how to do what's peculiar to your machine, a
screen editor, and a C compiler for I think about a kilobuck. The
OS-9/68000 docs say you ought to have either a machine running OS-9 or
an 11 or VAX (why these in particular? dunno...) running Unix before
starting a port.

('Twould be nice to have it on a Macintosh; someone asked Ken Kaplan
(pres. of MWare) about this, and his reply was that it was hard to pry
details of software and interfaces out of Apple. Maybe eventually...
Anyone up to helping convince Uncle Clive Sinclair to trash his odd OS
for the Quantum Look and use OS-9 instead?)

						James Jones