On 1/3/23 09:21, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 12/31/22 09:17, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 12/30/22 22:35, Christian R. Fandt via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Always been a 6800/6502 guy. I like the 6802 and 6801 families better. The 6809 is one of my favorite chips.
Now on the OS9 front (not OSK or OS900) there's NitrOS-9 which is open source. Microware is okay with that. They still exist and they still selling software for the ARM and a few other processors.
I've run NitrOS9 on a CorshamTech 6809 system. It's pretty nice as it is, and I think it has great potential to be even more.
My memories of 1984 and the introduction of the IBM 5170 (AT) was: how do I put this application in the background and jump into a shell? What do mean this thing can still only do one thing at a time? It costs more than a Gimix Ghost. I was visiting the Wall St. Journal in NY at the time doing work for a small company who produced equipment for the newspaper industry. In our office we had a Gimix Ghost (6809 based) running OS-9 Level II. It had intelligent serial ports, intelligent hard disk controller and 2 Meg of static RAM (6116). We ran 7 users on it. Though the developers did move over to a 68000 (OS-9) later. Both the Gimix Ghost and the Helix 68000 systems were cheaper than a new 5170. And I could Ctrl-Z (put the application in the back ground) and drop into a shell. At the time I had also knew about Unix, which did the same thing. But I don't think there were Unix systems that cost less than $1000. The Helix 6800o with OS-9 was. I have a few more 6809 and 6800 controller boards I'll be working on. I found a copy of Microware's RTX for the 6800 (like Microware's OS-9 but for the 6800). The Liebert board will eventually get an RTX OS for it. The documentation is a bit weak but it's amazing that it was found. I think Microware stopped selling it 1977 and it's not an OS as we're familiar with term OS for vintage and modern PCs. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ