[Coco] OS-9: Here we go again (see also: Coco and CoCofest)

[gene heskett]

On 8/12/22 20:05, Joel Rees via Coco wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 8:28 AM David Ladd via Coco
> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>> Eric,
>>
>> I believe Microware has already been working on OS-9/ARM for a while now
>> and since both iPhone's and the new Mac's are ARM based there you go :P
> The processor is (somewhat) orthogonal to the market. Especially, ARM
> has broad penetration in a variety of markets.
>
> On the other hand, ...
>
>> Sincerely,
>> David Ladd
>> ***END OF LINE***
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 5:10 PM Eric Canales via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, sounds good! Who's ready to start development on OS-9 X and iOS-9 for
>>> phones?
> Since phone OSses are by definition embedded, they demonstrate that
> embedded and personal/home use are not separate markets.
Including cnc. I am running an 11x54 sheldon lathe, the service truck 
model,
made around the end of WW-II, first several years ago with a pi3b, now 
with a
pi4b, which has more than enough power to drive a 4 or 5 axis mill. 
Running a
full blown raspian buster with a realtime kernel I built. Just to see if 
I could do it.

Power draw is about 5% of what each of 4 other dell's running 3 more 
machines and a
3d printer.  Those dell's have older i5's in them and they are hungry. :o(
> If Microware had deep pockets and wanted to litigate, with the proper
> legal team, they could probably get the original verdict overturned
> and get some rather steep claims against Apple.
>
> But they'd have much better ammunition if they had been actively
> developing a phone OS sometime in the past.
>
> Which is to say, I think it would be better now (and would have been
> better then) for Microware to start (gradually) expanding their market
> focus for real instead of just trying to hold on to what remains.
>
> That would require them to make some technical and legal decisions
> they have continued to show aversion to, however -- officially opening
> the source, being willing to pursue different technical solutions than
> what's popular in the market in producing an equally capable
> toolchain, among other things.
>


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