gow@sakari.mrceg (Ed Gow) (11/27/90)
In your posting of 19 October you said that you'd answer questions "after midterms". I hope they're over and that they went well. I'm looking for info on the TC070. New info on the MM1 would also be appreciated. For the TC070, I'd like to know about the K-bus, what is it like?? Also, what software is included with the computer and at what price? The info that I can offer is this. I talked with Microware, makers of OS-9, and learned that they get many requests for a POSIX system call library. They will decide about this in January. My view on this is that the UN*X boxes on the market (including the A3000UX) are too expensive for my tastes and for much of the home market. A POSIX compatible OS-9 machine could be a kind of "baby UN*X" for us poor folk. Microware already offers a UN*X comaptibility library, so this should be a relatively small step. I hope that the MM/1 and TC070 marketing people will take this tack instead of trying only for the untapped "CoCo user who wants to move up" market. I'm also interested in the mutual emulation possibilities of MM/1 and Amiga. I have only spent a little time looking at the 66470 VSC docs, but it looks as though it and the Amiga custom chips are comparable. -Ed -- ------ Ed Gow ------ uwm!mrsvr!gemed!sakari!gow ----------- My opinions are NOT those of GE. MGB - The most fun you can have in a car without a back seat