[Coco] superpet

[Shain Klammer]

I've actually got one of these along with a dual disk drive in my
collection... but without any disks (etc.) I haven't really done much with
it... much less the 6809 side...

It may take awhile before someone at TPUG gets back to you... although (as I
understand) they still meet regularly, I don't believe the numbers are still
there (they once were the world's largest)...

sk

2008/6/23 Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>:

> Willard,
>
> You might find this link to be of interest:
>
>
> http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/magazines/misc/SuperPET_OS_9_TPUG_Feb_1985.pdf
>
> I've emailed the Toronto Pet User Group at info at tpug.ca to see if anyone
> has a copy of OS-9 for the SuperPet, but never got a response.
>
> Regards,
> Boisy G. Pitre
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>
> On Jun 23, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:
>
> I was browsing through the library today and stumbled across a book
>> called "Introducing the SuperPET" or someting like that, so I picked
>> it up and looked through it.
>>
>> Commodore's SuperPET is a dual processor machine, with a 6502 & a
>> 6809.  The 6809 makes it at least vaguely on topic for this list. :-)
>> It has several interesting features.
>>
>> First, it's dual processor is either/or.  There's a hardware switch on
>> the front to select either 6502, 6809, or enable a software switch for
>> the two.
>>
>> The memory map (which is the same for either processor) has 32K RAM
>> starting at 0x0000.  Above that is video RAM, a 4K bank-switchable
>> page, I/O space, and ROM.  There is an additional 64K RAM that can be
>> switched into the switchable page, in 4K blocks.  There are also two
>> ROMs, and switching the processor automatically selects the proper ROM
>> and reboots the machine.
>>
>> Disk drives are connected via IEEE-488.  They are intelligent drives,
>> handling the filesystem themselves.
>>
>> The 6502 ROM is Commodore BASIC.  I read somewhere that the PET line
>> actually had Microsoft BASIC, but Commodore didn't fess up one way or
>> the other.
>>
>> The 6809 ROM is more interesting.  It's a BIOS for a Pascal system
>> developed at the University of Waterloo.  From the description, it
>> sounds similar to the old P-code system, except that it compiles down
>> to 6809 binaries.  It is implied that the Pascal system has to load
>> more code off a disk to be functional.
>>
>> I was hoping the book would mention OS-9, but it didn't. :-(
>>
>> Willard
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