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From: budne@mrfort.DEC (Phil Budne)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: 6809 Query
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 14:20:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 14:20:54 1984
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I have a friend interested in buying a cheap micro to do low level
hardware and software hacking with.  I suggested the 6809 as one of
the neatest 8-bits I had ever seen, so he has been looking at the R-S
Color Computer.  I have a bunch of questions;
 
1)	Are there any other interesting 6809 based units available?
2)	How easy/hard is it to add disk drives to the CoCo?
	Will they be able to read OS-9 disks? Is there an OS-9 standard?
3)	Are the any good books / magazine reviews related to OS-9?
4)	Any personal opinions about OS-9? Any alternatives?
	How "UNIX" like is it? File Sys? Processes??
	What ever happened to FLEX/UniFLEX?
 
And anything else you can think of.  He would consider a good 'C'
compiler and assembler a real plus.  How much would a workable
experimenter system cost?
 
I will post a summary of any/all messages sent directly to me.
 
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Phil Budne
DEC Large Computer Group (DEC-10/20)
Marlboro[ugh], Mass
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