andree@uokvax.UUCP (12/20/83)
#N:uokvax:12700007:000:903 uokvax!andree Dec 18 16:22:00 1983 A month or so ago, I mentioned (loudly) an os called 0s-9/68000. I recently spoke with the company marketing it about purchasing a user-configurable (ala CP/M-68K) copy. They have reversed their previous stand, and will not be marketing such a version. They have no plans of marketing such a creature, and won't even sell OEM licenses to anybody but the original manufacturer. So you can't even shell out bucks for a version that way. The reason appears to be that they are not interested in the business/home market, and are going to stick with the industrial process control market. This is a shame, as os-9/68000 is (in my opinion) a better system than Unix V. With the vanishing of os-9/68000 from the user-configurable market, people who wish to upgrade their s-100 (or whatever) bus system to a 68000 are left with cp/m-68K as the only option. To bad. They could have made a lot of money. <mike
emjej@uokvax.UUCP (12/24/83)
#R:uokvax:12700007:uokvax:12700008:000:478 uokvax!emjej Dec 21 10:35:00 1983 Re OS-9/68000, this is what little I understand: Microware will sell a Source Code Development Package for OS-9/68000, just as they do for OS-9/6809. This isn't source to everything, just enough to get one to the point where one can port the OS to one's own hardware. (Evidently not even OEMs get source to everything.) Waiting to see what comes out (and hoping it's not so long a wait that inferior products wedge themselves into the niche), James Jones