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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: OS9/68K on the Amiga
Message-ID: <370@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 22:19:42 EST
Article-I.D.: 3comvax.370
Posted: Tue Jan 21 22:19:42 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jan-86 08:29:43 EST
References: <407@wlbr.UUCP> <339@3comvax.UUCP> <1040@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: OS9, Amiga

In article <1040@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>
>     I've made the following suggestion before to C64 users and IBM-PC
>users, who have ignored it, but what the heck?
>
>     If you want to add a 6809 or even a 68000 to a Commodore 64, then
>why not just buy a Single board OS-9 system and use the Commodore as
>a terminal.  By integrating the software properly you may be able to
>accomplish a lot.
>
>     Sardis Technologies sells bare-board single/multiboard 6809
>computers capable of using the Color Computer version of OS-9.  There
>are *many* OS-9 68K technology single board computers.  Although the
>Frank Hogg systems look really good for business applications, why
>not look at the Emerald 68000 OS-9 board for $600.00 (I'm sure the
>software is extra).
>
>     For C-64 owners, this approach also makes fast disks a possibility.
>
>-- 
>James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
>ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura
>Byte Information eXchange: jimomura
>(416) 652-3880


The commodore 64 has dynamite internal hardware, including a GREAT video
chip, a GREAT audio chip, 2 CIAs (the nicest PIAs around), etc.  I want
to write 6809 code to use this hardware, not some minimal 6809 computer
with a C64 as a terminal.

Also, the C64 has fast disk drives, just slow software.  If I had a 6809
card, I would put faster handshake routines in ROM on it and junk the slow
C64 ones.  Otherwise, you cannot show me a computer short of the new 68K
Amiga and ST (that I can afford) that has the graphic and sound capabilities
of the C64.   I want to twiddle the registers directly from the 6809, not
through some hodgepodge of mixed 6502 and 6809 code.