daday@ecs.umass.edu (10/23/90)
Hello net, I am building a 68000 based computer project in our computer lab course. When I am done with the course I would like to go on using the computer as a real computer. Since it has only an EPROM monitor now it's kinda limited in what it can do. OS-9 seems a logical operating system to run on a 68000 computer so all I've gotta do is find out from you how to do that. Complete answers and pointers will be real helpful. I need to know what OS-9 expects as base hardware and at what addresses it expects to find it. Price and availability would be just as useful. Thanks are in order for those who respond, david daday@umass.edu
jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) (10/23/90)
In article <11130.27234ab0@ecs.umass.edu> daday@ecs.umass.edu writes: > I need to know what OS-9 expects as base hardware and at >what addresses it expects to find it. Price and availability >would be just as useful. (Sigh--perhaps I should've posted before this; mail bounced repeatedly.) OS-9 looks in what are called "device descriptor modules" for memory-mapped I/O addresses, so as long as the values there indicate where the devices really are, it's happy. OS-9 runs on a pretty wide variety of hardware. If you want real live time- slicing then you need a regular source of interrupts. Pricing is best determined by calling marketing types (515-224-1929); while you're on the phone, ask for a copy of *The OS-9 Catalog*, which is free and contains a decent overview of the operating system. James Jones