Douglas Crawford wrote:
I'm not sure what those user accomplished with [OS-9], that would be interesting to hear about if someone wanted to start a thread on that.
Um, "read the fine Internet". Archives of old user group emails, archives of old user-group paper newsletters. It's fine to have conversations; but to "what users accomplished", look at the records, look at the works. In any event, OS-9 and SS-50 systems in the era were sufficiently robust to be used in industrial and business systems. A search for catalogs and conventions sponsored by OS-9 (Microware) using companies will suggest the range of customers and applications. It's from a time before the IBM PC monoculture, when microcomputers of all kinds flourished, and did real work. "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - attributed to Mark Twain Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net
Whatever. Yes of course industrial, I'm not that aware of business. I had a brush with setop box use by GI. Throw me a bone. Can anyone shed more light? Thanks On 1/4/2023 1:48 PM, Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Douglas Crawford wrote:
I'm not sure what those user accomplished with [OS-9], that would be interesting to hear about if someone wanted to start a thread on that.
Um, "read the fine Internet". Archives of old user group emails, archives of old user-group paper newsletters. It's fine to have conversations; but to "what users accomplished", look at the records, look at the works.
In any event, OS-9 and SS-50 systems in the era were sufficiently robust to be used in industrial and business systems. A search for catalogs and conventions sponsored by OS-9 (Microware) using companies will suggest the range of customers and applications. It's from a time before the IBM PC monoculture, when microcomputers of all kinds flourished, and did real work.
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - attributed to Mark Twain
Herb Johnson
participants (2)
-
Douglas Crawford -
Herbert Johnson