Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsd!knudsen
From: knudsen@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (michael.j.knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: OS9000/386
Summary: OSK not OS9000
Message-ID: <12343@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 18:28:53 GMT
References: <1989Dec18.085728.9745@metro.ucc.su.oz.au> <1805@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1434@mcrware.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Well, I'll accept Kim's disclaimer to the effect that he was objecting
to the "CocoPro4" running OS9/Intel (aka OS9000) at all, let alone in
ROM.  We expect OS9/68K (aka OSK) to be in ROM.

Supposedly there will be a way to plug Intel 80**6 boards into
the Coco4's bus, but with OSK already built in I have no intention
of letting any of that IBM-tainted Intel scum in my box.

Incidentally, Microware used to tout OS9's ROMability, at least
in the industrial arena.  Plus the ability of newer modules in
a disk boot to override the ROM versions, module by module.
Supposedly these features will be exploited in the CocoPro4.
-- 
Mike Knudsen  knudsen@ihlpl.att.com   (312)-713-5134
"Round and round the while() loop goes;
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