Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!ihlpl!knudsen
From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: os9 for the apple //
Summary: Need 6809 board
Message-ID: <10557@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 May 89 22:49:50 GMT
References: <10626@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Distribution: comp.os.os9, comp.sys.apple
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <10626@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
> I got interested in os9 about a month ago but just recently someone told me
> they'd heard of a version that ran on the apple //. I know there are 6809 and
> 68k versions, but has anyone else heard of a 6502 version for the apple?

You can't run any real OS on the 6502 :-).
What you heard involves a plug-in 6809 board called "The Mill"
from a company whose name I forget (and who is probably history by
now anyway).  There was a good version of OS-9 Level 1 for the
card, and someone posted here a few years back about getting one
so he could run a good Pascal on his Apple.

Advertize around and maybe you can find a Mill card and software.
I doubt whether it supported any graphics routines; for those
you'll just have to walk to the local RadShack and get a modern
toy computer :-).

Note that folks used to plug Z80 cards into Apples to run CP/M
(gag -- choke -- but it was a step up from AppleDOS I guess).
	mike k
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Mike Knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)   att!ihlpl!knudsen
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