On 2/9/21 2:30 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 2/6/21 5:52 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
I definitely want this up and running as it's a good example of an industrial micro- computer before the IBM PC became popular. I know it runs OS9 as that's what I had on it and the ROMs also say so. :-) Microware's OS-9 for the 68K became OSK which later became OSK. Microware OS-9 still exists and supports a large number of processors including the one for the Raspberry Pi.
Yup, definitely very interesting hardware. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that stuff.
I have no experience with OS-9, but have taken an interest in it over the past few months. I'm slowly putting together a 6809-based system to run it on.
Please share what you build. Microware's OS-9 was a very interesting OS. Also Nitros9 Level I & II is available for the 6809 (CoCo, ST2900, SWTPC). Level I OS-9 (for the 6809, multi-user, multi-process, all sharing 64k) Level II OS-9 (for the 6809, multi-user, multi-process. each process could have up to 64k, w/MMU) OS-9 (for the 68k, multi-user/tasking, written in assembly) OSK (for the 68K, multi-user/tasking, written in C) OS-9000 (different processors 68K, x86, etc.) Modern OS9 (different processors 68K, x86, etc.), Still being sold and supported. They're working on a Raspberry Pi version now. There was an RTX or RTS for the 6800. I've not seen this and only found out about it in the last year. BTW< I think we lost Peter Stark's Star-K stuff. I think I have the HUMBUG source for the 6801, 6809 and 68K. I wish I had grabbed the rest when I had a chance. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies