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> They were effectively 9 years ahead of Apple in developing a usable multithreaded, preemptive multitasking OS… But 23 years behind OS-9, which I happily ran
by CharlesW 3y ago
> They were effectively 9 years ahead of Apple in developing a usable multithreaded, preemptive multitasking OS…
But 23 years behind OS-9, which I happily ran on my CoCo 9 years before NT was born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/OS-9%20Level%20II%20and%20the%20Tandy%20Color%20Computer%203%20(1994)(Rodger%20Alexander).pdf https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/OS-9%2...
- watersb 3y agoMad props for OS9 on an 8-bit microprocessor. The Motorola 6809 was a nice architecture for UNIX-like systems... if we accept the 16-bit memory address space.