[Coco] OS-9 History

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 18:54:32 EDT 2013


I believe that OS-9 was designed to provide a base from which Basic09 could show the capabilities of the 6809 processor. In addition the RTS capability of the os was to show that a real-time os was possible with the 6809 as well.

Thierry Mella <thierry.mella at skynet.be> wrote:

>Greetings from Belgium,
>
>First of all, would you excuse my "english", but french is my mother 
>language.
>
>I wonder what is the history of OS-9 level one ? Is it just an attempt
>to create a "Unix clone" on the 6809 ? Or are there somes others reasons ?
>
>Why has it been developed ? For which market need ??
>
>Thanks a lot in advance for your help .....
>
>Thierry
>
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