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Search for "rm/cos 68000" I remember a little about it: You could set up "partitions", which mean reserve fixed amounts of RAM for different applications. It
by jhallenworld 10y ago
Search for "rm/cos 68000"
I remember a little about it:
You could set up "partitions", which mean reserve fixed amounts of RAM for different applications.
It ran on the (8 MB I think) external hard drive for the TRS-80 model 16.
An advantage compared with Xenix is that it was smaller (used less of the hard drive).
Also it had just a single directory, but had a form of hierarchy in that you could use any number of '.'s as separators: like usr.bin.ls. The total name could be long. I think OS-360 worked something like this.
I think the last line of the screen was always the command line, and the other lines were for command (or cobol menu screen) output and worked like a pager.
You could definitely hook up serial terminals.
I found this:
https://books.google.com/books?id=05wAGZQlo9QC&pg=PA694&lpg=PA694&dq=rm/cos+68000&source=bl&ots=gesmgDuQyt&sig=yiG4elq9cIWxcQua_Nxgf1YUOX8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin6qbqi_bNAhWEeSYKHTOwBDAQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=rm%2Fcos%2068000&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=05wAGZQlo9QC&pg=PA694&lpg=...
http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/altos/Altos-68000-Systems.pdf http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/altos/Altos-68000-Systems.pdf
It's the same as "COS990", but for 68K.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThanks! That last link is helpful! It's actually quite an interesting and capable OS. Has file & software protection mechanisms. I recall UNIX having about no reliability at the time. Also, coding, compiling, and directly running without linking the apps is closer to a LISP machine than regular OS of the time. Might give it at least a brief Wikipedia article with these links.