[Coco] OS9 68K

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sat Mar 11 19:13:15 EST 2017


On Mar 11, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/9/17 12:06 AM, James Ross wrote:
>> David Linsley said:
>>> I remember conversing with the purveyor of the WCP306 back in the day too.
>>> Found a reference here:
>>> http://www.verycomputer.com/10_bf7cd3fd15b0878f_1.htm
>> 
>> Ahh... so there were two different OS-9 68k boxes that could use PC peripherals. The WCP306 & PT68K-4.
>> 
> 
> Weren't CD-I (CD Interactive) boxes M68K based?

Yep, their CD-RTOS was OS-9/68K 2.4 I think. Boisy Pitre created a CD-I CD that would boot to an OS-9 shell and could run programs. At the time, I thought it could have been the true OSK solution for the masses since there were cheap systems for sale at the time.


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