[Coco] The Mark Twain of operating systems...

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I wish someone would port nitros09 to x86, or better yet... ARM.
Small, lightweight, effecient, it would be an excellent netbook os also I think.


Linux is getting far too bloated I think.


Steven


-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 12:56 am
Subject: [Coco] The Mark Twain of operating systems...


I may have shared a link here a few weeks ago to the RadiSys web page stating 
that they no longer sold OS-9. It appears this was not what they meant. It now 
appears that they have resellers who sell OS-9 for them, and that the product is 
still available.

http://www.radisys.com/Products/Microware/OS-9-RTOS/Microware-OS-9.html

The resellers include RTSI in the USA (Allan Battieger, who has/had the OS-9 
archive site), one in Asia, and one in Europe. Long live OS-9!

I ran in to one of the remaining OS-9 engineers at lunch today (he started with 
Microware in the late 1980s) and asked him about this, and he told me it had 
been a mistake and that the website was fixed. I also found out that there are 
still new products coming to market based on OS-9. Amazing.

It's the little OS that just won't die... yet...

		-- Allen

P.S. Anyone out there good at compiler technology and might be interested in 
porting GCC to compile for the modern OS-9?

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