The folks at Microware really should be legends in the industry for their forward-thinking software. OS-9 was doing this in 1979, before the Commodore 64 even existed, with a full-fledged UNIX-style shell environment and all of the flexibility that philosophy brought with it, in less than 64 kilobytes! Ask most programmers which consumer (non-mainframe/UNIX/'big-iron') system was able to do multitasking and/or timesharing you'll usually get answers of the Commodore Amiga, or the PC, or the Mac. This operating system has been really short-changed by history. The OS of which I speak is the OS-9 RTOS by Microware: a microkernel which was originally written for the Motorola 6809 CPU as a contract from Motorola to showcase their new CPU (most famously used on the Tandy Color Computer, various GIMIX systems, the Sharp X68000 series in Japan, and the Fairlight/CMI synthesizers of the early 80s), then ported to the Motorola 68k series of processors, the x86, ARM and Hitachi SH series, amongst others. However, there was a damn good operating system written for this CPU which I just can't stand to see die slowly, rotting on lost floppy discs and SCSI drives.
Os 9 emulator software#
It had a beautiful instruction set and a clean architecture, from software all the way down to the bus protocols. The Motorola 68000, sadly, is mostly a relic nowadays.
I appreciate your patience please check back periodically to see if I've finally fixed this to work on modern x86_64 Windoze installations and hopefully Linux, where I'm spending more time nowadays. I do intend to look into the issue (really!) but have been swamped by 'real life' the last while. Apparently the FAME emu, or (more likely) my abstraction on top of it, does not boot OS-9 properly on x86_64 Windows.
Os 9 emulator code#
I know the code linked here has been broken for some time.
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