On Thursday, June 29, 2000 at 12:30:00 PM UTC+5:30, Charles Richmond wrote:
> William Hamblen wrote:
> >
> > [snip...] [snip...] [snip...]
> >
> > One of Microware System Corp.'s first products was a minitasking ROM
> > (RT68MX) that would work with a Motorola Evaluation Kit or an SwTPC
> > 6800 microcomputer. I remember it was 1 or 2K bytes, and you had to
> > set up the task table by hand, but it would multitask. They also sold
> > an integer BASIC compiler (A/BASIC) that would produce programs
> > compatible with the RT68MX ROM. It was entertaining to try to compile
> > a BASIC program using an SWTPC 300 bps cassette tape interface.
> > Microware later produced OS-9, which actually is a useful product.
> >
> And when Apple introduce Mac/OS9 (which just says "OS9" on the box), they
> were sued because of trademark infringement by whoever owns OS-9 now.
> Some of the people who have Radio Shack Color Computers still run OS-9
> on them. And I believe there is a version of OS-9 (the Microware one)
> available for 68000 processors.
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> | Charles and Francis Richmond <rich...@plano.net> |
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