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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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Subject: Re: Info on OS9 Operating System
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:42:17 EDT
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In article <2193@ukma.UUCP> sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) writes:
>Flame on!
>...
>I realize that OS9 and SysV are different products. Their target markets are
>considerably different at the ends, but have a large overlap in the middle.
>If Microware wants a good share of that middle, they are going to have to give
>the developers a means to practically support the product.  Otherwise, well,
>I told you so!

Sean, Sean, Sean, please be careful, the last time you flamed you totally
melted a keyboard.  And on your salary .... :-)

Seriously...  My experience with OS-9 (COCO) was that it was small enough
that one could disassemble it and stare at it for a few days and understand
it.  In fact, the RS OS-9 manual set is almost good enough for that
understanding as is.  (It documents the internal data structures and such
well enough that it's just a little thinking before you understand the
system).

Maybe once you actually started using the code it acts different.  (I've
not had much chance to play with it because I've only got one disk drive).

I'm curious about one thing ... Does Microsoft distribute MSDOS source
code to developers?  Or just some fancy documentation?

What exactly does Microware distribute for OS-9 developers?
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