Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:1069 comp.sys.att:3740 comp.os.os9:39 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!cci632!ritcv!rochester!dibble From: dibble@cs.rochester.edu (Peter C. Dibble) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,comp.os.os9 Subject: Re: OS-9 on Unix-pc hardware. Could it work? Keywords: OS-9, OS9, unix-pc Message-ID: <1988Jul9.234758.20551@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 10 Jul 88 03:47:58 GMT References: <1081@flatline.UUCP> Reply-To: dibble@cs.rochester.edu (Peter C. Dibble) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 11 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