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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: OS/9 (Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve))
Message-ID: <2141@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 04:35:21 GMT
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In <3263@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Actually, if you can dig up an old CBM Super-Pet (Try high-schools)
>> TPUG offers a version of OS-9 called Super OS-9.

>Wait a second. Doesn't the Pet use a 6502? Last I heard, OS/9 was only
>for the Motorola 6809 and 68000.

Well, the Super-PET was a PET plus more. It did have a 6502, which acted just
like a regular PET, but it also had a 6809, which acted like.. well, like a
6809. There were all sorts of neat languages available for it too. I never had
one, but those that did were always raving about the machine.

-larry

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