mckay@pur-ee.UUCP (Dwight D McKay) (12/08/85)
Permission to reprint or excerpt is granted only if the
following line appears at the top of the article:
The CompuServe OS9 Sig. Copyright 1985. Reprinted by
permission.
*** Attention Amiga owners: You say you want a powerful,
flexible, multitasking, multiuser operating system for your
Commodore Amiga? Well, you're going to get it! A company,
whose name I can not yet mention, is now in the process of
porting OS9 to the Commodore Amiga! Believe me, I know.
Designed by Microware Inc., OS9 is a Unix-like operating
system, with much of the power and flexibility of Unix, but
without the price or size! It is, and has been for about 6
years, running on a variety of 6809 and 68000 CPU's,
including Gimix, Smoke Signal, SWTPC, Tandy Color Computer,
Hazelwood, Helix, and UniQuad. It has recently been
announced and is being distributed with a 68000 coprocessor
for the IBM PC/XT/AT! It is also in the process of being
ported to the Atari ST. It will be available before, or
during the second quarter of 1986, and possibly the first
quarter of 1986!
OS9 comes with a full complement of utilities, pipes, and
filters, just as Unix does. It also provides access to a
wide variety of business software, and a wide variety of
programming tools and languages, including C, Pascal,
Basic09, Fortran, and Cobol.
Stay tuned to the CompuServe OS9 Sig for news of this new
product for the Commodore Amiga, and for constant news,
information, technical assistance, and public domain
software.
Remember, you heard it here first! Please pass the word, and
when you want to visit the OS9 Sig, just type "GO OS9" from
anywhere on CompuServe! The OS9 Sig is dedicated to the
promotion of OS9 and OS9 information, and to helping OS9
users. We have been open for 3 years and we are 1000 members
strong at this moment. We are also the repository for the
international OS9 Users Group Software library, and we are
the largest single common gathering and information point for
OS9 users, no matter what computer is being used.
Wm. A. Van Nest "Van" 76703,467 SysOp of the CompuServe
OS9 Sigdillon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (12/10/85)
In article <3555@pur-ee.UUCP>, mckay@pur-ee.UUCP (Dwight D McKay) writes: > > Permission to reprint or excerpt is granted only if the > following line appears at the top of the article: > > The CompuServe OS9 Sig. Copyright 1985. Reprinted by ... etc This is a joke. Not particulary the beginning of the posting, but more the ensuing text. It reads like an add in a magazine, and is completely against USENET protocols. -Sic- Nobody else do it, please. -Matt
michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) (12/11/85)
In article <3555@pur-ee.UUCP> mckay@pur-ee.UUCP (Dwight D McKay) writes: > OS9 comes with a full complement of utilities, pipes, and > filters, just as Unix does. It also provides access to a > wide variety of business software, and a wide variety of > programming tools and languages, including C, Pascal, > Basic09, Fortran, and Cobol. Sigh... no Lisp... -- Mike Maxwell Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center ...uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!michaelm
jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) (12/13/85)
In article <400@bcsaic.UUCP> michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) writes: >In article <3555@pur-ee.UUCP> mckay@pur-ee.UUCP (Dwight D McKay) writes: >> OS9 comes with a full complement of utilities, pipes, and >> filters, just as Unix does. It also provides access to a >> wide variety of business software, and a wide variety of >> programming tools and languages, including C, Pascal, >> Basic09, Fortran, and Cobol. > >Sigh... no Lisp... >-- Well, yes, there is Lisp. Public domain XLisp is available from the OS-9 Users' Group. From what I hear it's quite good. I think it's the same XLisp that was published in Byte for the IBM-PC some time ago (written in C as I recall). Cheers! -- Jim O. >Mike Maxwell -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura (416) 652-3880
lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) (12/13/85)
In article <973@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: > > Well, yes, there is Lisp. Public domain XLisp is available from the >OS-9 Users' Group. From what I hear it's quite good. I think it's the Quite good as an introduction... It is very clean and porting it to the Mac was easy. Undergrads actually added Mac windows and menus as bona fide XLisp objects. However, I do not see XLisp as a contender for any "serious" work. It simply lacks speed and you will get very rapidly tired of having to reinvent the wheel by writing functions usually available as primitives. -- Jean-Francois Lamy Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal. CSNet: lamy@toronto.csnet UUCP: {utzoo,ihnp4,decwrl,uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!lamy CDN: lamy@iro.udem.cdn (lamy%iro.udem.cdn@ubc.csnet)
dibble@rochester.UUCP (Peter C. Dibble) (12/14/85)
> In article <3555@pur-ee.UUCP> mckay@pur-ee.UUCP (Dwight D McKay) writes: > > OS9 comes with a full complement of utilities, pipes, and > > filters, just as Unix does. It also provides access to a > > Sigh... no Lisp... There IS a Lisp for OS-9. It's called Lisp-09 and is available in Japan. This is another of the dandy pieces of software the the Japanese don't see enough market here to export. (They have prolog for OS-9 too.) Next time I'm talking to Microware I'll ask about the chances for getting lisp and prolog in this country and if the news is interesting I'll post it here. Peter Dibble
emjej@uokvax.UUCP (12/15/85)
No Lisp? The fellow I talked to at LispLab claimed that Franz Lisp for OS-9/68000 was under development (at the time, awaiting the new version of the C compiler). Dunno its current status. (There's always XLISP...) James Jones
ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (12/15/85)
In article <400@bcsaic.UUCP> michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) writes: >In article <3555@pur-ee.UUCP> mckay@pur-ee.UUCP (Dwight D McKay) writes: >> OS9 comes with a full complement of utilities, pipes, and >> filters, just as Unix does. It also provides access to a >> wide variety of business software, and a wide variety of >> programming tools and languages, including C, Pascal, >> Basic09, Fortran, and Cobol. > >Sigh... no Lisp... But it should be possible to port David Betz's XLISP (granted, a subset, but you've got to start somewhere) to OS-9, it's written in C. All you have to do is replace the OS-specific calls. (Since there's XLISP for Unix, this might not be too hard.) I've also heard rumors of a LISP system written in Pascal as well. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@c.cs.cmu.edu (cmu-cs-c.arpa) Usenet: ralphw@mit-eddie.uucp Fido: Ralph Hyre at Net 129, Node 0 (Pitt-Bull) Phone: (412)578-2847,578-3275
steve@wlbr.UUCP (Steve Childress) (12/18/85)
Anyone out there know what the Amiga-port of OS9 will do re graphics and
sound? If system drivers and extensions to BASIC09 and additions to the C
library (e.g., Lattice) are not done, I can't understand how this
OS9 could find widespread support. (Emphasize widespread).
Steve Childress
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or ...wlbr!wlbreng1!steve