Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to OS1?
Message-ID: <609@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 20:01:33 GMT
References: <1054@cblpf.ATT.COM>
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Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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Summary: Well, you know, there really *was* an OS-1...almost.

In article <1054@cblpf.ATT.COM>, mdk1@cblpf.ATT.COM (Michael King) writes:
> 
> Since we all know that our favorite Operating System is OS9, what ever
> happened to OSs 1 through 8?  Will there ever be an OS10?

<with fake bedraggled beard and imitating Grandpa>
Well, you know, once upon a time around 1980 or so there was (almost) an
OS-1.  A company called Electrolabs was selling it for the Z-80.  It was
supposed to be a Unix-like OS.  A friend of mine had, I believe, a prelim-
inary copy once.

There was also an OS-6, written by Christopher Strachey, I believe.

Now, of course, there's OS/2--perhaps that's a short form for OS-1/2. :-)

		James Jones