ccrjohnm@ucdavis.UUCP (John McLaughlin) (10/25/85)
It seems like ~ 30% of the mail in the net.micro.xxxx world these days is made up of discussion of the OS9 operating system. What is so special about OS9? note that I am not saying it is not a good Operating System , I just have never played with it, and I am curious as to why it is being hyped so much. John
jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) (10/28/85)
In article <190@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrjohnm@ucdavis.UUCP (John McLaughlin) writes: >It seems like ~ 30% of the mail in the net.micro.xxxx world these days >is made up of discussion of the OS9 operating system. What is >so special about OS9? note that I am not saying it is not a good Operating >System , I just have never played with it, and I am curious as to why >it is being hyped so much. > > > John I think this is a good time for me to say that I've had a lot of enquiries via mail which I wanted to respond to and haven't yet. I just can't say anything that's brief and complete enough. I have a file which is a compilation of things I've posted to BIX. I just haven't had a chance to upload it from my main OS-9 system to my Unix connection (right now due to a small bug in my terminal program I can't send a straight ASCII dump properly. I have to XModem it to my CP/M system and then ASCII dump it to lsuc--all at 300 baud). Another problem is that I can't seem to 'mail' to everybody. A fair bit of it seems to get returned. In fact, If Bob Larson reads this, I hope he sends me a voice phone number so I can call him. I've sent messages to him via 'mail' and some gets through, but I think some of it didn't. At any ragte, I'll see if I can post something in the next few weeks. (But if somebody else wants to, then don't wait for me...:-) Cheers! -- Jim O. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura Compuserve: 72205,541 MTS at WU: GKL6