Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:1037 comp.sys.att:3716 comp.os.os9:37 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,comp.os.os9 Subject: OS-9 on Unix-pc hardware. Could it work? Keywords: OS-9, OS9, unix-pc Message-ID: <1081@flatline.UUCP> Date: 10 Jul 88 00:21:33 GMT Organization: a flat near the Montrose, Houston, Tx. Lines: 30 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. -- Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy... [Obscure joke goes here] J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/