Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!att!ihlpl!knudsen
From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: MacII&OS9
Summary: Say what?
Message-ID: <7237@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 88 15:31:54 GMT
References: <8810140355.AA13711@decwrl.dec.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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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!)

Er, did I miss something?  Don't all the Mac family use some
680x0 processor?  The above is a good reason not to
look for OS9 on a PClone or DEC Rainbow, but doesn't keep
it off the Macs.
BTW, you need a 6809 to run 8-bit OS9, not a 6800.

So far the 680x0 version is running well on Atari STs.
There was talk of an Amiga port but since that box already has
multi-tasking, the perceived demand has been less.
-- 
Mike Knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)   att!ihlpl!knudsen
"Lawyers are like handguns and nuclear bombs.  Nobody likes them,
but the other guy's got one, so I better get one too."