[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

[Keith Krehbiel]

OS-9 is precisely a mini-unix.  That was its purpose.  It was made to 
run on machines of minimal resource for, among other things, NASA 
robotics, etc.  There were some business apps for it too.  If RS had 
given it even half-hearted support it would have grown instead of dying 
out.  It was a much more advanced OS than ANYTHING contemporarily available.
kk

Dave wrote:
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> John, agreed, from what I've read, OS-9 and NitoSO-9 are Unix clones 
> their own right...and I haven't had time to build the disks yet and 
> give them a spin....
> The Minix project looks intersting and something I would fire up on my 
> old STE to have look at.....
> Thanks for the info....!
> Cheers Dave
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> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "John R. Hogerhuis" 
> <jhoger at p...> wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 18:56 +0000, Dave wrote:
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>>>I micro-unix for the CoCo would be cool in my books... :-)
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>>I believe the compiler that is used to build Tanenbaum's Minix has a
>>6809 target. Maybe it would "just work" with just serial port or a
>>console I/O driver adapted to the coco.
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>>But then OS-9 would probably fit a broad definition of "micro unix."
>>
>>-- John.
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