On 1/3/23 09:28, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 12/30/22 22:35, Christian R. Fandt via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Back in the early 90's, I had gotten involved with Microware OS-9 on a small 68008 STDBus system intended to be used as a controller on a process machine at work at a now-defunct employer. (Good Heavens, that's 30 YEARS ago!) Anyway, since I scrounged and still have the hardware and software sometime after the project got cancelled, I plan to mess with it again sometime into my retirement commencing in about a year or so.
That sounds like a really fun little system! (I know you were talking to Neil, but I couldn't resist jumping in)
Dang didn't notice the 68008 part. Yes, if you can resurrect that system. I'm pretty certain that code written for one OS9 (68000 or 68008, not 020) can run on the on the 008. The OS is kind of customized boot for that device. I think you can use one OS-9 (68K) to build the boot for another. Not sure how hard it is to gen the disks. It's been almost 40 years since I last did that. Dave I think we need to get you a 68000 OS-9 system for the LSSM! Taking the Large Scale technologies and putting them into the little scale devices. -- 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