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From: klieb@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Kurt Liebezeit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Apollo/Sun 68000,68010,68020
Message-ID: <2782@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 04:10:45 GMT
References: <3b219db7.d858@apollo.uucp> <903@cayman.COM> <1525@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: klieb@tekigm2.UUCP (Kurt Liebezeit)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <1525@puff.cs.wisc.edu> richardk@puff.WISC.EDU (Richard Kottke) writes:
>  Since it is not hard to port a UN*X application to OS-9 (especially if its
>in C), OS-9/68k was an obvious choice when only the 68000 was available.  So
>why didn't anyone base a machine on it?  I dunno.

The reason why is that OS-9/68k came out several years after the 68000 was
introduced. The folks at Microware could probably pin it down exactly, but
I think that OS-9/68k came out in early 1985. The 68010 was already available
at that point. There are some nice machines out there that run OSK (as it
is called informally), but they are not in the mainstream of consumer
computing.

Kurt Liebezeit