Drew.Anderson@C.CS.CMU.EDU.UUCP (02/01/87)
There is a relatively new product out called SKDOS, which is a simple single tasking, single user DOS for the 68K. It only costs $175 (including the porting documentation/drivers.) I am planning to use it in an upcoming coprocessor board for the PeeCee, mostly because I am fairly familiar with the operating system model for it (which happens to be TSC's Flex, if anyone knows what that is.) Drew Anderson P.S. I have not used the product yet. This is in response to the letter from Mike Meyer. -------
mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP (02/02/87)
Is SKDOS from TSC? If so, whatever became of UnixFLEX? Anyone know? <mike [Still trying to bring this group back to life....]
jejones@mcrware.UUCP.UUCP (02/04/87)
SKDOS is the invention of Peter Stark. The original version for the 6809 is, to my understanding, a reverse-engineered and improved version of FLEX/6809, which is (was? is anyone buying it any more?) a TSC product, basically a port of FLEX for the 6800 to the 6809. Back to the 68000--check out the March 1987 *Radio-Electronics*. Back in the back, there's the first of a series of articles on a DYI 68000 computer. Based on the names of the authors, the statement that there are 2K+ of the beasts in Europe, and mail from Ralf Stranzenbach of U. of Dortmund, I betcha that the machine is one first written up in a German mazagine called "mc". James Jones
jejones@mcrware.UUCP.UUCP (02/04/87)
See previous message on SKDOS--TSC now mainly sells UniFLEX, because nobody buys FLEX with SKDOS available, I'm told. There are people out there who actually run UniFLEX--indeed, I know of one in Moore, Oklahoma. SWTP, the folks who really started the whole megillah (once Motorola made the 6800), got bought by Fischer Scientific, and if you look in a Fischer Scientific catalog, you'll see the remnants of SWTP computers being sold with UniFLEX. James Jones