Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: OS/9 (Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve))
Message-ID: <5691@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 01:59:06 GMT
References: <3222@sugar.uu.net> <5142@edm.UUCP> <3247@sugar.uu.net> <6122@columbia.edu> <3263@sugar.uu.net> <18994@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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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.

No, no...the 6502 was the I/O processor.  The 6809 was used to
run all those languages.  (APL on a micro, using an ASCII
keyboard is an interesting experience :-)  ) It was designed by some University
of Waterloo people, and had 96K of RAM, viewable through a 
4K memory window.
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andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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