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> Even more amazing is that OS-9 was available for the "toy" Color Computer 15 years before multitasking became available for Windows or MacOS. Indeed. OS-9 on
by jjav 5y ago
> Even more amazing is that OS-9 was available for the "toy" Color Computer 15 years before multitasking became available for Windows or MacOS.
Indeed. OS-9 on the CoCo is what I grew up on and it spoiled me for all mainstream systems later when I realized how inferior they were to what I got used to as a kid.
Multi-tasking multi-user OS on an 8 bit 6809 with 128K of RAM (and a price of just a few hundred dollars, back when an IBM PC was thousands).
It also made me feel very familiar when I first encountered various UNIX systems so the transition was easy.
- canadian_tired 5y agoYou and me both. I ran OS-9 on my CoCo 1 in 64Kb RAM... sometime in '84 - '85. Could not do a lot, but it gave me a bit of grounding when I was dropped into SCO Unix in the late 80's.
- jjav 5y agoOh right, there was OS-9 Level I which ran on the CoCo 1 and 2, but with the max of 64K it was fairly limited in practice, although still a great learning platform. Later there was OS-9 Level II on the CoCo3 which was much more usable as a daily driver OS.