[rescue] OT: Solaris for Intel

James Fogg rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jul 26 12:13:09 CDT 2001


O/S9 is an RTOS that has a port for the 680X0 Motorola VME SBC's. I used to work
for a company (Terminal Data Corp) that manufactured super-high-speed page
scanners that used a VME cage and O/S9.

I don't know if the O/S9 for the COCO was the same thing, as that had a GUI (I
have seen it and have a friend that still runs it).

The O/S9 I know smells a lot like a cross between CPM and Unix. And this goes
back to the late 80's (probably around before that too).


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> >>OSX is to OS9
> >
> >Never used OS-9, but I know it's been around a long time.  Isn't it a
> >fairly popular RTOS among the VME vendors?  For some reason I also
> >associate it with the Motorola 6809 cpu (such as used in the old at 
> Shack
> >color computer), but I may be way off base there.  I'm not sure that
> >comparing an embedded RTOS to a desktop OS makes much sense, either.  
> (I'm
> 
> No. OS9 in this context means Macintosh Operating System 9.
> 
> Mike
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