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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's a good OS-9 box?
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 10:52:00 EST
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/* Written  7:41 pm  Dec  7, 1985 by brownc@utah-cs.UUCP in net.micro.6809 */
I'd like to get an OS-9 box, either OS-9 or OS-9/68k.  What is a good box
with an 80 char screen, 2 floppies & hard disk interface, and 2 serial ports?
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If they could be convinced that Americans aren't all bozos who'll buy any-
thing iff it looks just like the IBM PC (barf), Fujitsu might sell their
excellent 6809 and 68000-based OS-9 boxes in the US.  (For completeness's
sake, they're the FM-11, FM-77, and FM-16 (not the garbage they sell in
the US and call an FM-16, but the real FM-16 with a 68000).)  I hear that
Hitachi sells some good stuff running OS-9, too.

Aside from the CoCo, the only US-available machines running OS-9 are of a
sort that take an external terminal.  Given the requirements you mention,
I'd look real hard at some of the 680x0 SBCs and the computers built around
them.  (Frank Hogg's QT, QT+, but if you've got the $$$, wait for the one
built around the Gimix 68020 board--it will flat-out FLY.  If you don't
have the $$$, go for the QT+, or the similar box that AAA Chicago Computer
sells.)

						James Jones