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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: MacII&OS9
Summary: uh, gee...
Message-ID: <757@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 14:13:33 GMT
References: <8810140355.AA13711@decwrl.dec.com>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <8810140355.AA13711@decwrl.dec.com>, burke_vern@dneast.dec.com (Mah biscuits 're burnin'!-Yosemite Sam,_Roger Rabbit_) writes:
> 	os9 was developed strictly to run on systems based on
> 	the motorola 6800 and 68000 series microprocessors.to
> 	the best of my knowledge,the isn't anything else that
> 	it has been adapted to run on(esp. a MacII!)

While I know of nobody who has ported OS-9 to the Mac II, the CPU that the
Mac II uses is not an impediment.  OS-9 runs on the 6809 (not 6800) and
680xx microprocessors, so the 68020 in the Mac II would have little trouble
running OS-9.

		James Jones