#: 19596 S1/General Interest
    14-Jan-94  16:16:38
Sb: #19581-Stupid Question No. 1
Fm: ole hansen 100016,3417
To: Bruce Wagner 76460,3667 (X)

Hello Bruce

The reason for being 18 times faster than OS/2 and not 4.5 times is because
we(os-9-peoble) call it for os-half. Sorry just joking.  OS-9 is the most
widely used 'hard-real-time' operating system for the 68K-family and for some
years ago also the 6809. It is one of the only that is selfhosted, which means
you can connect a floppy/harddrive and edit - compile -debug directly on your
target. A special version called RTOS is the hart/kernel in the CDI-players
from Philips. It is the second most sold real-time ope- rating system in the
World. Only the PDP-11's have sold more, and they are about to exit the field
due to age. It is also quite popular amongst pri vate people, because it is
multitasking,multiuser,realtime,romable and unixlike(on the io-system). I could
go on for ever......

regards

ole@danelec.dk