[Coco] OS-9 History

[George Ramsower]

 I really want to know, and I'm waiting to hear/read about the history of 
OS9.

 If memory serves me correctly....

 I've read, many years ago, that Microware wanted to make a RTOS for a 
microcomputer to be similar to Unix and that the 6809 was perfect(at the 
time) for this application. I've even read that OS9 was developed for NASA 
on the eary missions and BASIC09 was developed for the Radio Shack release.

 Don't know if any of this is true but, that's what I remember.

 I'm really intersted to see some input on this.

George

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Campbell

  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: