aam@pucc-h (Dwight McKay) (12/01/84)
(* snap, crackle, pop *)
Does anyone know of any developments in putting OS-9/68000 on the Mac?
OS-9 matched with a bit-mapped screen and mouse would be pretty nice,
not to mention that it would give the Mac access to a multi-tasking
(multi-user if you could add terminals) operating system, etc.
Is this going to happen?? Rumors gratefully accepted!
(OS-9, for those who don't know already is a UNIX-inspired operating
system originally designed for the 6809 but has recently become
available for some 68000 based systems.)
(Os-9 and UNIX are trademarks of their developers...)
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/______\jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) (12/03/84)
[Aren't you hungry...?] If I could find out who did OS-9, I would be tempted to try to port it. Anyone who can give me pointers to more information about it please do. It seems that much of the time overhead of trhe MacIntosh is a function of the Finder, and not of the code intrinsically. The Aztec (MANX) environment works *much* faster, though it is not necessarily thereby more useful. One problem which occurs to me is that one would be wasting a lot of good ROM routines, and not having virtual memory is a problem. Jon Shapiro
eve@ssc-bee.UUCP (Michael Eve) (12/05/84)
According to the Dtack Newsletter, Issue #37, (Nov/Dec '84), the "68 Micro Journal" in a recent 68000 column talked about an adaptation of OS-9 for the 68008. "Apparently, a nearly literal translation of 6809 code to 6800x code". There is also mention of a company called Microware Systems Corporation in Des Moines, Iowa which offers OS-9 for the 6809. Dtack doesn't mention who did the 68008 port. Sounds like 68000 types would do well to peruse the "68 Micro Journal". -- Mike Eve Boeing Aerospace, Seattle ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!eve