#: 19959 S1/General Interest
    15-May-94  06:51:32
Sb: #19949-understanding the forum
Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
To: Nicholas Drake 73742,566

Nicholas,

 > I got your name from the sysop's list. I need some guidance through this
 > fourm. Can you tell me about os-9, what it can do or not do? What hardware I
 > might need? How to get started..... you know all the standard stuff. Also
 > fill me in on what services the forum can provide me.

Gee, that's a tal order.  OS-9 is an operating system much like Unix except it
is much smaller and modular.  OS-9 is mostly used for industrial control
applications and is normally burned in a ROM along with the application
software.  However, it makes a real good hobbyist OS which is the main reason
for this forum, to support OS-9 users.

The reason OS-9 is attractive to the industrial control people is because it is
modular, easily ROMed and also for it's real-time capabilities.

Hardware is another matter.  OS-9 was originally written for the Motorola CPU
series (6809, 68000, 68020 etc). but is now available for the Intel CPUs as
OS-9000.  There are a number of OS-9 machines around.  If you are really
looking for one, let us know here and the name of a few vendors can be
provided.

Let me know if you have any more questions.  You can just post yours to the
general forum members as there are more people out there that can answer you
questions better than I.


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