🚀 go-pugleaf

Eric, you don't seem to realize:  OS9 'IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM'.  It's
modules are all re-locatable, use OS9 I/O calls, and in short do not
'fit' onto GEM - NORMALLY.  But I seem to recall (when I used my trusty
old 6809 a lot more) that the assembler (and at least one C) could gen
'Native' code.  But this made testing a pain, as you had to re-boot the
old OS, run your code (if you were lucky you had a debugger), and then
re-boot OS9 to re-EDIT, COMPILE, LINK... sad.  In short, you stayed in OS9.
But then the 'native' OS on the Tandy Color Computer with 64K (there I've
admitted it!) was BASIC (yech), so it wasn't worth it.

   In short: When you boot OS9, you can still run BIOS, but you kiss TOS,
and GEM goodbye (I think).  And as you say, I doubt OS9 has the libraries.
Now, weather the ST version of OS9 has a SIMILAR type of windowing and
menu system... I don't know, havn't seen the ST version, and I don't know
how far it has gotten in it's evolution.  Comments anyone?
 /PJ