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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 11:08:12 EDT
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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Subject: Re: Tiny Giant vs. PT 68K-2
Summary: Peripheral Tech.
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Date: 12 Oct 87 14:55:33 GMT
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     I won't try to say whether you made a "right" choice in buying
the PT board, but I thought I might say that I know a bit about
PT and they've been around for a long time.  I've read magazine
articles in 68 Micro Journal about their earlier products and the
buyers seem quite pleased with the products.  They aren't always
perfectly debugged, but if you're a competent hacker they aren't
usually bad either.  As such, there's hope.  I don't know about
Tiny Giant, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad product.

     Yes, OS-9 *is* multi-tasking, and multi-user.  It's also
available on the Atari ST and it's selling quite well from what
I hear.  There's a fairly rich and growing Public Domain, and
a Users' Group.  There's support for OS-9 'here' on the Net, and
also Compuserve and BIX (where I'm the moderator).  Official
Microware support support is on the Net and Compuserve.  Me, I
just try harder ;-).  Also I should mention there's support on
Delphi, but from what I understand, that group is mainly into
the 6809 version (Color Computer series).  My opinion of K-OS
and such is this:  If you want to re-invent the wheel, why not
start with toggle switches and a front panel?  Maybe by the
end of the year you'll even make it to line editors!  No point.
No, that's wrong.  What I should say is that *if* you have a
real reason to start over -- such as a vision of a real break-
through in the technology, doing something significantly *better*,
then it's worth it and by all means do so.  But when you've had
thousands of hours of professional designing, implimenting and
debugging done for you to get the basics done right, why pass that
up if you can afford it?  Of course that last is the trick.  *If*
you can afford it, I suggest you buy OS-9.

     I really like the idea of a cheap 68000 computer that can use
IBM-PC IO cards.  Good Luck!

Cheers! -- Jim O.
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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