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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Subject: Re: OS9 Introductory Info wanted
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 10:12:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 10:12:22 1986
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Summary: A bit more on OS-9


     I'll just add a bit to what 'ihwpt!knudsen' said.

     I think the most valuable resources for the OS-9 user are The Rainbow
Magazine, 68 Micro Journal and the OS-9 Users' Group.  I read The Rainbow
and 68MJ myself, but I'm not yet a member of the Users' Group (soon I hope).
There are a massive number of public domain program, including most of
the Unix utilities that aren't standard and are commonly used.

     Bob Larson has 'microEMACS' source code for the Color Computer OS-9
and will be posting it on his own system (details available from
'oberon!blarson', he posted it to INFO-68K a while back).  If I get
the source, now that it looks like 'mod.os.os9' is going to die, I'll
post it to 'net.sources'.

     I think my C compiler (same one as mentioned before) handles 'structure'.
I ran the Dhrystone on it, so I'm fairly sure about that.  I think we're
missing ENUM though and #ifndef (why only the negative #if form doesn't
work I'll never know).

     The Pascal is also a good language package (I haven't had a chance
to use it, but have had it for a couple of months now--looks fine).

     I use OS-9 with 1 80 Cylinder drive and 2 40 Cylinder drives, not
as a programmer, but as a 'small business' (I'm a lawyer by trade).
As far as I'm concerned, yes, 2 drives are *very* minimal, and they should
not be the silly Radio Shack 35 track money wasters.

                                             Cheers! -- Jim O.

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