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From: piner@pur-phy (Richard Piner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: os9 and Unix
Message-ID: <1505@pur-phy>
Date: 5 Oct 88 11:48:13 GMT
References: <709@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Reply-To: piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Richard Piner)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <709@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> dnelson@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Dru Nelson) writes:
>I have noticed that very few people look at os9 as much as they
>should.  Why isn't it that more companies and computer manufacturers
>use os9?  The Atari ST runs os9 well (from what I here) and the only
>place I here about the ST and os9 are from the germans who post.

>Is there some major deficiency in this operating system that is 
>present that causes more people to choose unix?? (other than the
>modules and incompatible os calls shouldn't make one difference
>when your compiling C !?)

OS9/68K is smaller, faster, and cheaper than UNIX. Why would anyone
want to sell that? Actually, OS9 is not common because ignorance is.
All we can do is keep telling people to check out OS9 before they
buy. If they want a user system, UNIX comes with more tools. If
they want a programmer's system OS9 comes with better tools, e.g.
very good compilers.
BTW, a company in Wisconsin, Heurikon, sells systems that run
OS9 or VRTX or VRTX32 (not on the same machine of course). I just
got their latest catalog, and boy, they sell neat stuff. And yes, I
do have one of their systems and it has been rock solid.

				Richard Piner