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From: dibble@rochester.UUCP (Peter C. Dibble)
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Subject: Re: OS9
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:13:51 EDT
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> I would also be interested in knowing if anyone has successfully hacked
> up the Radio Shack version to run on a SS50 system. It seems to me that
> it would be a very inexpensive way to get OS9 up and running. The C compiler
> that Radio Shack markets, which is presumably Microwares version, is also
> considerably cheaper than the one marketed for OS9 level 1 on a GIMIX.
> Has this version been altered to run ONLY on a color computer ?

I saw an ad in 68 Micro Journal a few months ago for a system with the
modules to fit Radio  Shack OS-9 to it.  The modules (I/O support and
clock driver probably) plus OS-9 from Radio Shack cost less than any
normal OS-9 price I've seen.  The problem is getting started.  Without
an OS-9 system it is hard to write and debug drivers, but you don't
have a working system until you are done.

Radio Shack uses a different physical disk format from standard OS-9.
As far as I know that and device drivers/descriptors (which almost
always differ between systems) are the only special things about
the CoCo's OS-9.

Peter  Dibble