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

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Wed Feb 15 11:23:01 EST 2012


On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:19:51 AM Boisy G. Pitre did opine:

> Very interesting post, Al.  I had no idea RadiSys had made such a faux
> pas on their website.
> 
> It's amazing to me that after all Microware has been through, that OS-9
> is still being sold and used in designs, given the absolute
> predominance of embedded Linux which is free.
> 
> I miss working with OS-9 and Microware.  It's just too bad Microware
> couldn't keep things afloat and had to hack away it's talent through
> attrition.  To me, that was one of the saddest things I ever had to
> witness.
> 
> Who's requesting a port of GCC to OS-9?  I would think that the focus
> should be making LLVM work with OS-9. --
> Boisy G. Pitre
> http://www.tee-boy.com/

Boisy, for those of us who aren't familiar with the LLVM acronym, can you 
give a half page list of what it does, and does better?

Cheers, Gene
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