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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.news.group,net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: Can the OS-9 traffic move out of net.micro.68K?
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Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 22:55:43 EST
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>>   I second this proposal.  I've tired of having my news cluttered
>>with allegations that this toy operating system, running on a toy computer,
>>is but ooooh-sooo-wonderful.  Grow up and start using a real OS!


>My system at home is a 68000 with 256K RAM and a 6502 as a front-end
>I/O processor (MTU-130 with DATAMOVER board).  It currently only has
>two 8" DSDD floppy disk drives.  There is no way that a good subset of
>UNIX would effectively fit on that configuration;  certainly for not
>more than a single user.  My MTU-130 could support a couple developers
>or quite a few light application users (e.g. text editing or
>whatever).  For smaller (read much less expensive) systems yes, OS-9
>IS "ooooh-sooo-wonderful".

I have nothing against OS-9; I'm just getting a little tired of having
these pro/con-OS-9 flames bouncing back and forth in net.micro.68k.
Virtual memory, pipes, filesystems, etc.  What does all that have to
do with the 68000?  I currently have no intention (read: desire, yes,
money, no) to buy a 68xxx system that will run either OS-9 or UNIX,
and I'm sure there are others like me reading net.micro.68k.  I do
have an interest in 68xxx architechture, though, and welcome any sort
of technical discussions about hardware/software/firmware that deal
with mainly the 68xxx, and not with the choice of operating system.

What Gene says in net.announce.newusers is that net.micro.68k is for
"discussions about the 68k".  It certainly isn't for doing battle with
flamethrowers between UNIX and OS-9.

Powers-that-be, please give OS-9 its own newsgroup.


				   \tom haapanen
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