🚀 go-pugleaf

        Greetings, all! As if no one had enough problems of their own,
here's one that I've run into recently. Here's hoping that a kind soul knows
the solution and will E-Mail me some enlightenment.

        I've found out enough about OS-9/68k to decide that we should be
running it in the lab, rather than CP/M-68k. The fact is that OS-9 presents a
better design for an OS, makes better use of the hardware, and would really
add the needed multi-tasking, real time support for monitoring/controlling
processes.
        So I called Microware out in Iowa. I asked for general information,
and I asked if they could quote a price for Level I on a CompuPro system. They
said they'd be happy to send the info, but that I'd have to talk to CompuPro
about availability. Then I called CompuPro. They told me that they only offer
Digital Research systems. Dead end.

        Can this be true? CompuPro seems to sell/have sold  the most S-100
hardware, post-IMSAI, Mits, Sol and all that. Is there no source for OS-9
to run on one of their systems? If there isn't, has anyone tried to port it?
The more I find out about it, and the more I find out about the users group's
library, the more I'd like to get it up and running. Please respond to one
of the addresses listed below if you can help.

Thanks,

Steve Jones
Hampshire College       "... and many Div's to go before I sleep."

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