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From: berger@datacube.UUCP
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Subject: Re: OS-9 Topics for Discussion
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 11:47:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 11:47:00 1985
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>Anyone care to make a prediction about just what features will
>be ported.  Wild cards?  Events?  Named pipes?

Named pipes as well as semaphores are supported in the latest release!

>OS-9/32016, interesting rumor.  Unsubstantiated but fun to think
>about.

I doubt it since they wrote the whole operating system in Assembler
and have not yet announced support for the 68020...
I still don't buy the argument that you need to write the kernel in
assembler for speed.

>If you could have any single program made available for OS-9,
>what would you pick?

ANSI-C compiler, Cross compilers for SUN, MacIntosh, IBM-PC.
Tools for auto-building trap-libraries.
Curses for OS9.

>Why didn't the OS-9 modules in ROM concept ever catch on
>(or did it)?

That's the main reason we are using it!  Its the best thing about os9
besides the price.

			Bob Berger 

Datacube Inc. 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 	617-535-6644
	
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