[Coco] origins of OS-9

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

----- "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Dave Kelly
> <daveekelly1 at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> > Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >>
> >> I think there is a part of the story that I haven't been able to
> find:
> >> how OS-9 became a powerful, full featured OS and not just a shell
> for
> >> running B09.
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps when you're running a particle accelerator
> .......................
> > Or a jet turbine powered co-generation plant ...............
> > Or the California Department of Transportation ...............
> >
> 
> what does this mean .......................
> how is it useful .........................
> or in any way relevant ........................

Because OS-9 is most often used as an embedded OS in serious control systems.  Train routing systems.  Nuclear reactors.  Satellites.  The California Department of Transportation probably is running more OS-9 systems than ever ran on Color Computers.  NASA probably has more running than that.  And yeah, a whole lot of other industrial applications.  The hobbyist side was never the important side to Microware, and I can't blame them.  (Mind you, 90%+ is in government projects that I'd rather were in private hands, but that's just one anarchist's opinion).

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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net