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From: es@polari.UUCP (Erich Sweaney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Help!
Summary: Reply to help
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Date: 2 Feb 90 21:02:44 GMT
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In article <25c697a7:60comp.os.os9@vpnet.UUCP>, msm@vpnet.UUCP (Matt Minogue) writes:
> 
>    Excuse my ignorance.  I am an MS-DOS user (don't crucify me!) and have a
> friend who plays with OS/9.  It all seems rather interesting and UNIX like. 
> The only computer I've seen it run on, however, is a 68B09E CoCo 3 (ie: VERY
> slow).  What I'd like to know is the types of computers (and Uprocessors)
> you are running OS/9, OSK, and OS/9000 (oh, and the relative price of those
> computers.) BTW, what is the difference between OS/9, OSK, and OS9000? 
> Thanks in advance...


Subject: Re: Help!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Summary:  Reply to help
References: <25c697a7:60comp.os.os9@vpnet.UUCP>
> 

   Hi. I am a CoCo 3 OS-9 Level II 512k User. And the 68b09e for the CoCo 3 is coompared to the MS/Dos 286/386 the same speeed. The 68b09e matches the 206/386
by cycles. It takes 286/386 4 cycles to do a command, while it takes the 68b09e 2cycles to do the same thing. Since the 68b09e is a more efficient microproccessor it can compete with the 286/386, but 286/386 is faster, so the ineffieceint code does not matter. So, the CoCo 3 and the 286/386 would tie in a race. Pretty interesting stuff, huh? We'll talk to you later, Bye..