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To: coco@pucc.princeton.edu
Reply-To: m.j.knudsen@att.com

About all those industrial OS9 and OSK users --
one of the selling points of OS9 as a real-time OS for embedded
(single board) controller applications, is that OS9 is a
"self developing" or "self supporting" environment -- you don't
have to have a separate UNIX OS or PCDOS or whatever to develop the
code you end up putting in the product.

In other words, industrial users are expected to use OS9's
compilers, editors, file utilities, etc.  And peripherals.

So, as far as getting some backup tape company to take industrial
OS9 users seriously -- if they say "but those are just embedded
ROM jobs", yes, but the development of those ROMs is done on real
computer systems whose users just might want some tape backup.

BTW, I got this "selling point" from some Heurikon, Inc sales
literature.  They make single-board 68xxx computers and entire
custom breadbox-sized systems.  They push various embedded
real-time OSes, including PSOS, VxWorks, and of course our fave.
For each OS, they have a separate color brochure extolling its
particular virtues.  OS9 is the only "self hosting/developing" one.
Also OS9 can have the smallest kernel in the final ROM, after the
unused I/O descriptors and drivers are yanked out.  Easy to yank,
being modular, et. etc. but we all know that! :-)