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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1324.1 | Developed in Des Moines, iowa | TANNAY::BETTELS | Cheryl, DTN 821-4022, Management Systems Research | Fri Oct 16 1992 06:16 | 9 |
| In an earlier life, I used to work on OS/9 systems. It is Unix like but has
features which allow for more real-time functionality. We used it in process
control computers.
It was originally built for the Motorola 6809 but later developed into a 16-bit
version for the 68000 (which is what we ran it on). It was a pretty good
alternative to CP/M in those days for small microprocessor based systems.
Cheryl
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| 1324.2 | | JURAN::VALENZA | World's strongest granny is 84! | Fri Oct 16 1992 11:09 | 5 |
| I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that there was an implementation
of OS/9 for the old Radio Shack Color Computer, which ran on a 6809
processor.
-- Mike
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| 1324.3 | Remember the Dragon 32? | NRMACX::LANE | Engineerus Digitalis | Sat Oct 17 1992 04:33 | 6 |
| In the early eighties I bought a computer called Dragon 32. This was 6809 based,
and had an optional floppy drive add-on which if I remember correctly, cost more
than the computer did. This ran OS/9 , and promptly died out never to be seen
again. Ahhhh.. memories....(still, it was better than my ZX81...).
Roger
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| 1324.4 | Dragons, 6809s and OS/9 | ULYSSE::DEIGHTON | | Wed Dec 16 1992 10:00 | 8 |
| I still have my Dragon 32 and it still works fine, a version of
OS/9 was available for both the Dragon and the Tandy CoCo.
The Dragon uses a 6809E processor chip. OS/9 required the use
of disks as it provided a small kernel with disk based overlays
this was required to ensure that the whole thing would work
within the 64k address limits of the 8 bit micros. At the time
of the Dragon 32 I was developing software for a PABX which
ran 256 extensions using a single 6809E.....
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