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From: mwjones@lotus.waterloo.edu
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Subject: Re: OS/9 (Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve))
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Date: 12 Jan 89 16:16:52 GMT
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In article <18994@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
>Right - the Pet had a 6502. The Super-Pet added a 6809 as an I/O
>processor (which just tells you that some people should _not_ be
>allowed to design hardware). The OS/9 ran on that.
>	<mike

And this just goes to show you that some people shouldn't be allowed to
post articles to the net as they tend to talk about things that they
know nothing about.

The 6809 in the SuperPET is a real processor which comes complete with
Motorola support chips and an additional 64K of ram.  When the 6809
runs, the 6502 is held in the halted state (and visa versa).

--
Morgan Jones                  mwjones@lotus.uwaterloo.ca
"BMATH - 3 months and counting ..."