Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!ea.ecn.purdue.edu!mckay From: mckay@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D Mckay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809 Subject: Re: 512K RAM upgrades (Caching) (really ST OS9) Message-ID: <429@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 18:07:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.429 Posted: Mon Aug 31 18:07:56 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 00:50:04 EDT References: <5013@milano.UUCP> <420@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <1949@ihwpt.ATT.COM> Reply-To: mckay@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Dwight D Mckay) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 40 In article <1949@ihwpt.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) writes: > >Could you answer us some questions about the latest ST OS9? Sure. I purchased the "professional" version of OS9 for the ST directly from Microware. >Any improvements since Mware took it over? Yes. It's the latest release of OS9/68000 (2.1). It's supposed to be better documented as well. I have not seen the TLM release, but I am very pleased with what I have. >Specifically I'd like to know what the ST version has in the way >of graphics (ie, decent user interfaces to the ST's power) >and "does it do windows?" Nope. No windows, yet. Microware plans to offer a window manager called "Invision" late this year or early next year. That's what the Microware folks on CIS say, anyway. >Does the C compiler still cost $400? Don't know. C compiler comes with the $600 "professional" package. > I've hoped that Mware would transfer its work on >windows and graphics for the Coco-3 to the ST. Have/will they? See above. >BTW, can you have programs bigger than 64K (not incl data) >on the ST? I've heard that position-independent relative >branches in the 68000 can only cover 64K. Say it isn't so. Yup. It's a compiler option in the C compiler. "-k0l" gives you 32 bit offsets. --Dwight Mckay, ECN Workstation Software Support [arpanet: mckay@ee.ecn.purdue.edu, usenet: ...ihnp4!pur-ee!mckay] [Compu-serve: 75776,1521, office: EE 348B, phone: (317) 494-3561]