#: 18493 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    02-Aug-93  13:43:49
Sb: #18426-Phillips CD-I
Fm: Graham Trott 100115,1075
To: Ean Schuessler 73422,3441 (X)

Ean --

>>> OS-9 is CD-I's guts, it handles all the machine's resources and keeps
things moving <<<

Agreed, and it does it elegantly and efficiently, but how many CD-I
applications use multi-tasking, data modules, pipes or need the system
modularity?  Would we really notice the difference if there were a bastardized
MS-DOS underneath? (I know that's a tautology, but no matter.)  How much
relevance is there in the particular operating system?  I think the key to CD-I
is the design of the hardware and the facilities in CD-RTOS that ride on top of
OS-9; not the OS itself.

-- GT