[Coco] Another Radio Shack Article

[Allen Huffman]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
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> I don’t think I had any appreciable influence in “calling off the dogs” per se while I was at Microware. NitrOS-9 was practically ignored by the company, who was by then focused on major consumer markets like interactive TV, as well as their more traditional commercial markets.


The last potential use of OS-9/6809 by Microware almost happened in the late 1990s. I was teaching an OS-9 session in Arizona (I think) and there was a guy there that was talking to Microware about using OS-9/6809 in cash register computers. At the time, they had systems that were being used at -- I think -- Wendy's. I think they may have already been using 6809.

So as I went through the class, I would try to point out things I knew to be different (number of open paths and things that didn't exist at all in the original 6809 version). He was a really cool and fun guy who drove a cool car. He took me out to dinner somewhere, but I can't remember more details.

I even told him about the NitrOS-9 project at the time, but as we know now, whatever he was talking about with Microware never happened.

I wish I could remember his name or his company.
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