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From: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Low-cost UN*X system
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Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 14:50:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 20 14:50:33 1983
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There is a system called OS-9 for the Motorola 6809,
and 8-bit micro with a hardware multiply and some 16-bit
operations (and very nice to program in assembler).
OS-9 includes hierarchical directories, I/O redirections,
and pipelines among other UN*X goodies, and can keep
more than one program in RAM at a time.
"Serious" SS-50 bus 6809 systems are not exactly cheap,
but any day now (?) OS-9 will become available for the
poor-man's 6809 system, the Radio Shack Color Computer
(eat your hearts out, 6502s and Z80s).
I'm not sure who will get CoCo OS-9 to market first--
Frank Hogg Labs, or the Shack itself (the latter have been trying
to get it up solid for a year....)
	There are solid architectural reasons why a 6809 can support
higher level languages and OS'es than any other 8-bit micro, BTW.
	mike k