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Started by D-ROGERS
Sat, 21 Mar 1987 01:50
OS/9
Author: D-ROGERS
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1987 01:50
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1987 01:50
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Please forgive my ignorance, but i'm new at this. Could someone recommend a book or two on OS/9 for a person with moderate experience with computers (mini) but brand new to the 68000. ADVthanxANCE, der -------
Re: OS/9
Author: jejones
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1987 15:23
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1987 15:23
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The most readily available book on OS-9 is *The Complete RAINBOW Guide to OS-9*, by Dale Puckett and Peter Dibble. This book can be had at just about any Radio Shack store, assuming that you can get the Radio Shack salesman to stop trying to sell you PClones long enough to tell you where the books are kept. I feel less and less comfortable recommending this book as time goes on, though, because it only covers OS-9/6809, and OS-9/68000 is diverging more from OS-9/6809 as time goes on--but that divergence is more in terms of more bells and whistles on the shell or additional file managers and device drivers, so for the fundamental concepts the book is still worth your while. You should, of course, have the manuals. For 2.0 they've been heavily revised and improved. The other books on OS-9 that I'm aware of are sold through the folks who publish *68 Micro Journal*, which, by the way, has a regular OS-9 column. (*Rainbow* magazine has one, too, but it's 6809-oriented and you might not consider the cost of the magazine worth the small fraction devoted to OS-9. So you can decide for yourself, I point out that *Rainbow* can be found in B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks.) Address/phone for *68 MJ*: *68 Micro Journal* CPI Computer Publishing Center 5900 Cassandra Smith Road PO Box 849 Hixson TN 37343 (615) 842-4600 Finally--Michael Wakofski (sp?), who writes a CoCo column that gets published in *Computer Shopper* when the editorial staff has a page to spare from the PClone material that otherwise fills the magazine, is considering starting an OS-9-oriented magazine (68K as well as 6809). If anything comes of it, I'll send a message to the info-68k mailing list. James Jones
Re: OS/9
Author: khester
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1987 01:00
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1987 01:00
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Does anybody know where I can find a PD OS-9 enviroment, does such a beast exist for the 68K? Kevin Hester khester@ngp.utexas.edu
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