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Article #10938Re: OS/9 (Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve))
From: Andy Finkel
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1989 01:59
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1989 01:59
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In article <18994@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
>Right - the Pet had a 6502. The Super-Pet added a 6809 as an I/O
>processor (which just tells you that some people should _not_ be
>allowed to design hardware). The OS/9 ran on that.
No, no...the 6502 was the I/O processor. The 6809 was used to
run all those languages. (APL on a micro, using an ASCII
keyboard is an interesting experience :-) ) It was designed by some University
of Waterloo people, and had 96K of RAM, viewable through a
4K memory window.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: OS/9 (Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve)) Message-ID: <5691@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 13 Jan 89 01:59:06 GMT References: <3222@sugar.uu.net> <5142@edm.UUCP> <3247@sugar.uu.net> <6122@columbia.edu> <3263@sugar.uu.net> <18994@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 19