#: 7671 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    22-Oct-90  19:56:52
Sb: #7670-#OSK BACKUP
Fm: Jack Crenshaw 72325,1327
To: Jack Crenshaw 72325,1327 (X)

[Continued]

Oh,  yeah.  Forgot to mention Mike Evenson.  Mike runs a BBS for 68K stuff from
Texas.  He's very nice and helpful, also.  Lately, though, Mike and his BBS
have been almost exclusively devoted to Minix.  He's put an incredible amount
of work into it (with no rewards in sight) and has it pretty much down to a
cookbook installation.

More on OS's:  I seem to have somehow become a collector.  I mentioned
somewhere on CIS that I wished I could get CP/M for the 68000.  Turns out
there's a company that still sells it, and I bought a copy.  It has to be
installed with a custom BIOS, and I haven't got around to that, yet.  It comes
with the necessary tools, including a PC-based cross-assembler to help build
the BIOS.

Before that, Sidney Thompson recommended me to Joe Bartel of Hawthorne
Industries, who developed K-OS for his Tiny Giant 68008 system.  He wanted me
to port K-OS to the PT.  I was in the middle of an article and the linker at
the time, so I told him I couldn't do it right away.  He said that was OK, and
sent me the system and PC-based tools.  Later on, I heard that Joe and
Hawthorne sort of lost interest in the whole thing.  They got some kind of big
government contract to build hardware, so they dropped the TG and K-OS, but I
still have the software.

So I find myself in this funny position of having the possibility of not one,
but _FIVE_ OS's running on my machine, not counting the one I want to write
myself!  All I need to to is to find the time to install them all!

Jack



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