#: 9781 S1/General Interest
    13-Mar-91  19:46:10
Sb: #9682-OS-9/OS-9000 Features
Fm: David L. Kaleita 72657,2775
To: William Verthein 76557,3623

William, although I can't answer your questions quite yet, give me a couple of
weeks and I might be able to give you a bit of insight. You see, I have OS-9000
on order (it should arrive within the next few days), complete with the RAVE
graphics system. I have been using OS-9 for years and if OS-9000 is even 3/4 of
what OS-9 is, then I predict it is EXACTLY what you are looking for. I decided
to move to OS-9000 after studying a set of OS-9000 and Rave manuals for a
couple of months and finding that Microware has apparently not left anything
out from the OS-9 product, and actually added a few nifty new things.

I'll report back here as soon as I have a chance to play with it for awhile.

By the way, I am the Engineering Manager for a company who designs industrial
controls (primarily for resistance welding robots), hence my interest in real
time control systems. Besides, computers are one of my hobbies and I just HAD
to have the most powerful operating system you can get for a home computer
!

One last comment (for the benefit of you UG guys that are reading this
message): I'll get back into the OS-9/68000 game when CD-I FINALLY SHOWS UP AT
THE CES IN JUNE!!! In the meantime, I've bought myself a PC.

MS-DOS does indeed suck, and Windows ain't much better. Give me GEM or MAC any
day. I hope I can do some good stuff with Rave.