On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 7:21:43 AM UTC-5, Marc J. wrote:
Below is a copy of the message I sent to Microware USA:
Hi,
Now, would it be possible to get a hobbyist version of OS-9 68K (like OpenVMS) or even better publish the sources :-)
We would be happy even with a version 2.x
A lot of open-source 68K projects need an operating system like OS-9.
Hi, Marc. I worked for Microware (and, later, the company that acquired them) from 1995-2007 (with a gap in-between owners). The 68K used to be available for hobbyist use. Microware made their "Personal OS-9" for 68K available at lower cost to producers
of hobbyist systems like the AT306, MM/1, WCP306 and a number of others. This would have been in the 1990s. I personally have two such systems, still with OS-9 2.4 (there was never a hobbyist release of the 3.0 version that I was aware of, at least not
in the USA).
Today, Microware is owned by a group that was involved with Microware back in its original run. In the USA, that's Allan Battieger of Real Time Services Inc in Dallas. I just heard from him yesterday, and he had mentioned some status about the 68K CPU
product line. I wasn't even aware any were still being produced, but if there are, I'm gathering that is ending in the not-too-distant future.
If this happens, where 68K is a "dead" product, what would a hobbyist version be ran on?
I know they have OS-9 running (in a limited fashion) on a certain model of Raspberry Pi and some other better-supported ARM systems. That seems to be the direction they are heading, as far as a hobbyist platform.
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