[Coco] DECB -> Pi2/3

[Dave Philipsen]

You know about OS9000, right?  It was an OS9 derivative from Microware 
that was written in C and compiled to run on 80x86, Power PC, and 68000 
platforms.  There's probably no reason that it couldn't also be made to 
work on an ARM machine too.  I wrote some software back in the 90s that 
ran under OS9000 on an 80486 but it was compiled C code, not directly 
written in assembler.  I still have the install disks for OS9000 but I 
don't know if they're good.

Dave


On 3/6/2017 2:48 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
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> From: Coco [coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] on behalf of James Ross [jrosslist at outlook.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 2:57 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DECB -> Pi2/3
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> I’ve thought about this too.  Not sure this is exactly what you’re referring to, but it would be quite neat to see NitrOS9 ported to native ARM machine code on the Pi.  No 64k restriction – full address space / running at full speed using multiple cores … very, very lean.  Very quick boot. No Linux bloat. <- not that I am dissing Linux, however!!! :)
>
> I have also thought of what it would be like to have a more portable NitrOS9 (this dates
> back to my OS-9  days when I wanted to see that on other things, too.)  I even mentioned
> it here many, many years ago.  I line with my interest in more classic systems, the PDP-11
> was my first choice but I could also see it running on a VAX and even the Z80 might be fun.
> But, alas, I doubt abyone will ever see it running on anything else.  But I'm up for it if anyone
> decides to try.  :-) (Come to think of it, I even have some M68K QBUS boards that have no
> OS to run.  There's another target.  :-)
>
> bill
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