roccella@pilot.njin.net (Matthew Roccella) (11/09/90)
Help!!! I have heard that Radio Shack is going to discontinue to sell the CoCo 3. Does this mean an end to us OS-9 users? As far as I know, OS-9 is not really used much anymore. Everything has been replaced by DOS or UNIX. Is this just a misconception (I hope)? Will Radio Shack market another CoCo compueter that can utilize OS-9? Will software still be available for OS-9, or will it be very hard to get. I have just invested in purchasing a CoCo3 and the OS-9 operating system. I don't want my system to be obsolete before I even have a chance to master it! Does anybody know what's going on? Please let me know. I like OS9 much better than DOS. It is MUCH simpler to use than UNIX. I have MUCH MORE programming power with OS-9 than I would with DOS. I don't want to see a good thing go! Matthew Roccella ===="Right now, my only lady is my TRS-80. I need help!"
cocoiii@hobbes.ncsu.edu (John Vestal) (11/09/90)
In article <Nov.8.19.34.31.1990.19999@pilot.njin.net> roccella@pilot.njin.net (Matthew Roccella) writes: > >Help!!! > I have heard that Radio Shack is going to discontinue to sell >the CoCo 3. Does this mean an end to us OS-9 users? As far as I know, >OS-9 is not really used much anymore. Everything has been replaced by >DOS or UNIX. Is this just a misconception (I hope)? Will Radio Shack >market another CoCo compueter that can utilize OS-9? Will software >still be available for OS-9, or will it be very hard to get. > I have just invested in purchasing a CoCo3 and the OS-9 >operating system. I don't want my system to be obsolete before I even >have a chance to master it! Does anybody know what's going on? Please >let me know. I like OS9 much better than DOS. It is MUCH simpler to >use than UNIX. I have MUCH MORE programming power with OS-9 than I >would with DOS. I don't want to see a good thing go! > > > > > Matthew Roccella Well, OS-9 is very much alive. It is currently available for Macs, Amigas, Atari STs, and I*M 386 and 486 machines. Tandy doesn't support it any more. (They have gone MS-D*S,) but Microware is still developing stuff for it. You may have heard about a couple of new 68000 machines that will so be offered by two companies that is a replacement for the COCO. One company is Interactive Media Systems, and the other is Frank Hogg Labratories. I don't have the telephone numbers, of addresses handy, but if you want to go OS-9 IMHO this is the direction to go. BTW Tandy stopped making COCO's a year or more ago (I think?) OS-9 stuff was was stopped then too. Hope this helps, cocoiii (John Vestal) -- ****************************************************************************** * cocoiii@catt.ncsu.edu Phone: (919) 831-2890 North Carolina State * * John Vestal P.O. Box 21537 Raleigh, NC 27607 University * ******************************************************************************
37KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET (Tony Papadimitriou) (11/11/90)
Hi, > Well, OS-9 is very much alive. It is currently available for >Macs, Amigas, Atari STs, and I*M 386 and 486 machines. Does anyone know more about the 386 version of OS-9? I've never seen it advertised. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------ Tony Papadimitriou, Computer Science Department, C.M.U. E-Mail: 37KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET
newton@ils.nwu.edu (David Newton) (11/12/90)
In article <90314.14072937KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET>, 37KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET (Tony Papadimitriou) writes: |>Hi, |> |>> Well, OS-9 is very much alive. It is currently available for |>>Macs, Amigas, Atari STs, and I*M 386 and 486 machines. |> |>Does anyone know more about the 386 version of OS-9? I've never seen it |>advertised. I think it's called OS-9000, and it's (still) a Microware product. Or is that Microwave? =8-) David L. Newton | Work: (708) 491-4791 | VR is great!! I died in one- ILS, Room 327 | Home: (708) 332-2321 | (with virtual insurance, of 1890 Maple St. |------------------------| course) collected it, and am Evanston, IL 60201 | Gumby Cyberdeck Jockey | now virtually happy. I think.