rcoem@yabbie.rmit.oz (Peter Milway) (11/14/88)
Hello OS9's,
I need to answer a rather simple question. Iam after a
68000 type board that will plug into an IBM PC/XT/AT style computer,
and will allow me to run OS9 and make use of all the PC hardware.
My main desire is to have a system that will allow OS9 and MS-DOS to
co-exist in the one machine. As such speed and raw power are not my main
criteria. Cheap price would be an advantage.
Currently the only system that I know of is a locally made PC-XT
replacement motherboard which ditches the original XT totally, at a price
of about $A3000. This is quite a nice system, but is designed for OS9 power
and speed without compromise.
Please mail me any and all systems that you know about, and I will post a
summary of all and sundry to this group.
Regards Peter Milway.
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Digital Systems & Computer Engineering,
Department of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
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Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australiariddle@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Mr. Paul Riddle) (01/14/89)
Hello folks... I'm currently using OS-9 Level 2 (6809) on a Tandy Color Computer 3. I like it a lot, but I'm beginning to feel cramped by the 64K address space limit. I'm starting to look around for an OS-9 68K machine. The most important factor I need to consider is price. I am an undergraduate on a limited budget and, much as I would like to, I cannot spend thousands of dollars on the neatest, fastest OSK machines. Software-wise, a C compiler, macro assembler and linker are all essentials. What is a good source of public domain software for OSK? Is there anything remotely like TeX for OSK? Has windowing under OS-9 matured on any systems besides the CoCo? I'm not a hardware hack, but I don't mind putting a system together. I did manage to get a B&B Hard Disk working with my CoCo. If possible, I'd like to use an IBM-compatible hard disk with whatever I get. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I've glanced over the FHL ads and I've heard OSK will run on an Atari ST, but that's about all the info I've got.