OS-9 on Unix-pc hardware. Could it work?
Peter C. Dibble
dibble at cs.rochester.edu
Sun Jul 10 13:47:58 AEST 1988
When the Unix PC first came out several of us wanted to port OS-9 to it.
It looked like an excellent OS-9 development machine. We had several problems:
* It was expensive.
This has been fixed.
* It was impossible to get enough hardware information to do the port.
This may still be true. Years ago the problem seemed to be that
hardware information was caught between AT&T and Convergent. On
the other hand, I saw a posting that said that convergent would
sell their Unix source for the 3B1. I bet it's expensive, but
maybe some OS-9 person out there already has access to it ...
Peter
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