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From: kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9,comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Adapting coco OS9 to other systems
Keywords: OS9, coco III, uniboard
Message-ID: <991@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 15:43:48 GMT
References: <386@aucis.UUCP> <989@mcrware.UUCP> <1089@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <1089@esquire.UUCP> wynkoop@esquire.UUCP (Brett Wynkoop) writes:
>In article <989@mcrware.UUCP>, kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf) writes:
>> In article <386@aucis.UUCP> easton@aucis.UUCP (Jeff Easton) writes:
>> =hopefully) in the documentation that comes with the package?  Is it a
>> =seperate item you have to buy?
>> = 
>> ...also required a License Agreement with Microware.  Technical information,
>Greeting-
>     I just want to know when Microware started to care about its 6809
>products again.  When I try to talk to them at trade shows or on the phone

Microware cares about all its products.  The comment was prompted by the
reference to the CoCo version of OS-9.  Unfortunately, the market is different
and cannot bear the prices charged for professional software products, hence
Microware reluctance to put much effort into the CoCo market.  Besides, the
OS-9 on the CoCo is Tandy's product (they licenced exclusive rights).

>about the 6809 products they as a rule try to stear me to a 68k system
>running OSk.  I would probably go for it, but the cost of the compilers are
>out of sight!   $750 to $1000 for a C compiler depending on which vendor of
>course is a bit much if you ask me.

Again, OS-9 is a professional product and the market requires support and
service which commands the higher prices.

>Is os9 the number one os in japan because of more competitave pricing?

OS-9 is not the number one operating system in Japan, its MSDOS.  Nor is
it cheap.  OS-9 has the same effect no matter what machine it is ported
to: it tends to displace the existing operating system.  This happened
in the CoCO and on the FM-11 series in Japan.  The 68k version has been
released in Japan for the Sharp X68000 and will probably have the same
effect.  BTW, the price for the latter in converted yen is $180.  The 68K
C compiler costs $550.

>If you folks are supporting OS9-6809 in a real way why can't I get any
>ethernet software for it.  When I inquired about ethernet I was told
>"sorry only 68K"

Because ethernet software requires ethernet hardware and there is little
demand for either in the 6809 market.

>Sometimes I think Microware can't even remember what a 6809 is.
>
Sure we remember what it *was*.  In 1988 we sold 2 or 3 new 6809 licences...

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Kim Kempf, Microware Systems Corporation	{sun,uunet}!mcrware!kim