Re: Info on OS-9000

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From: James Jones
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 11:40

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In article <9311230542.AA15714@relay1.UU.NET> "Brian D. Wright" <bdw@PAUL.SPU.ED
 U> writes:
[other stuff, and lots of =20, edited out]
>Eric Levinson told me that this was more of an OS-9 emulator as opposed to
>a full blown OS.

Eh????  OS-9000 is as much an operating system as OS-9 is.

>However, I still want to mess around with OS-9, and run
>it on my 486.

I'm sorry, but unless someone has written a 68xxx emulator for the 80x86,
you can't, strictly speaking, run OS-9 on your 486.

>Does it translate the #asm directives in C source to Intel
>instructions?

No, it does not.  OS-9000, even running on a 68xxx, won't run OS-9
modules.

        James Jones

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