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- From: faype@bcvms.bc.edu
- Subject: Re: CUMANA OS/9
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150701.1@bcvms.bc.edu>
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- Organization: Boston College
- References: <4jw1d8l@rpi.edu> <8ay1_2k@rpi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:07:01 GMT
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- In article <8ay1_2k@rpi.edu>, oyakea@vccsouth09.its.rpi.edu (Amalaye Oyake) writes:
- > Questions :
- > Does anyone have any info on Cumana OS/9 ?
-
- I don't know about Cumana, but I do about OS/9.
-
- I'm going to assume that the OS/9 you're talking about is the same OS/9 I
- know about. I doubt there are two. OS/9 has been marketed by Microware
- Systems in Iowa (or was it Idaho?) for over a decade. It started as a
- assembly-written multitasking mini-unix system for the Motorola 6809 chip
- (8bit external/16bit internal). That was first used as a controller
- executive system (real-time system), and then a whole set of business
- applications were developed and sold as S100-bus systems (remember them? -
- or am I showing my age?). It was top-of-the line micros at that time.
- Eventually stupid Tandy picked up OS/9 as the OS for their Color Computer
- after years of hackers yelling at them to do so. Then came the high-end
- systems translation to 68000 machines - and you can now get it (I assume
- Microware is still afloat) for probably over 100 machines, mostly 680X0 -
- including the AtariST.
-
- It comes basically as a full-blown Unix system with the command names
- slightly changed to protect the innocent. The difference from 4.3bsd, or
- SysV is (1) size is very small, (2) modular OS - add whatever drivers you
- like for your system - even while the OS is running (3) it's REALLY a
- real-time system as opposed to Unix hacks to mimic one.
-
- It has been a few years since I've had any contact with it, so all this is
- retrospective.
-
- > 1) does it multitask ?
-
- yes. Essentially same way as Unix, except it can be a real-time sytem as
- well as general time-sharing.
-
- > 2) does it have specific applications ?
-
- It has a very large set of applications, as it has been used for many years
- as (1) office/accounting systems and (2) real-time controller and (3)
- Unix-type development systems. The applications are basically everything
- you have that can be legally translated from Unix systems, plus a few
- hundred third-party applications - not the well-known ones, though, like
- Microsoft, Ashton-tate, whatever.
-
- > 3) Can it recognise a network ?
-
- Yeah, network capabilities.
-
- > 4) What is it !!!!!????!!
-
- > 5) WHat are os/9 's capabilities ?
-
- See above.
- -pete
-
-