erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) (07/10/88)
I've been thinking. What would be the problems with porting OS-9
to the Unix-Pc? Maybe have a partition of my HD that's set up
for OS-9 (cf. DOS-73 board and hd)?
There are beginning to be a lot of OS-9 systems in the world. Well,
there've always been a lot, but now they're getting noticed.
Why OS-9? Realtime control, right off the bat. Multitasking/multiuser,
easer-n-sin to write a driver for *anything* you can hook up to it,
~compatible with unix source (I understand the the 68xxx OS-9 boxes
are really close), it's fast -- really fast, small, and clean
I wouldn't want to try and support a big multi-user system w/ OS-9,
but I'd like to do a lot of other things with it. In Japan, factories
use it to control robots; I've seen at least one Sun-we-want-you posting
referencing OS-9 programming; etc etc.
So, anyone out there have experience with the OS-9 Port-Pak (or whatever
it's called. Insta-Port? :-).
Email or post, as you wish.
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[Obscure joke goes here]
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..!bellcore!tness1!/dibble@cs.rochester.edu (Peter C. Dibble) (07/10/88)
When the Unix PC first came out several of us wanted to port OS-9 to it. It looked like an excellent OS-9 development machine. We had several problems: * It was expensive. This has been fixed. * It was impossible to get enough hardware information to do the port. This may still be true. Years ago the problem seemed to be that hardware information was caught between AT&T and Convergent. On the other hand, I saw a posting that said that convergent would sell their Unix source for the 3B1. I bet it's expensive, but maybe some OS-9 person out there already has access to it ... Peter