OS-9 on Unix-pc hardware. Could it work?

[j eric townsend]

I've been thinking.  What would be the problems with porting OS-9
to the Unix-Pc?  Maybe have a partition of my HD that's set up
for OS-9 (cf. DOS-73 board and hd)?

There are beginning to be a lot of OS-9 systems in the world. Well,
there've always been a lot, but now they're getting noticed.

Why OS-9?  Realtime control, right off the bat.  Multitasking/multiuser,
easer-n-sin to write a driver for *anything* you can hook up to it,
~compatible with unix source (I understand the the 68xxx OS-9 boxes
are really close), it's fast -- really fast, small, and clean

I wouldn't want to try and support a big multi-user system w/ OS-9,
but I'd like to do a lot of other things with it.  In Japan, factories
use it to control robots; I've seen at least one Sun-we-want-you posting
referencing OS-9 programming; etc etc.

So, anyone out there have experience with the OS-9 Port-Pak (or whatever
it's called.  Insta-Port? :-).

Email or post, as you wish.
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