OS-68K (was Re: I Found a Mouse!)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:38:36 -0500, Roger Merchberger
<zmerch at 30below.com> wrote:
> With all this talk of "Operating Systems you're not supposed to run on your
> computer" lately, this just begs the question: I *thought* there were
> versions of OS-9 that existed for the AtariST and/or the Amiga - as in
> OS-9/68K. Anybody know anything about a possible Amiga version? I'd be kind
> of interested in running that, just because I'm not supposed to... ;-)

I would be less surprised to hear there was an OS-68K implementation for Atari
hardware than Amiga hardware.  The only OSes I know of for the Amiga are
AmigaDOS (duh), Amix (SysV), Minix, *BSD, and Linux.  I happen to have
genuine purchased copies of Minix, and long ago, I did download sources for,
IIRC, NetBSD but never installed them (there's support there for more types of
devices for my GG2 Bus+ board than under AmigaDOS, scarily enough).

Feel free to prove me wrong, though.  I've always had a vague interest
in OS-68K,
if for no other reason than the fact that it should be a fairly
hardware-indifferent
platform for the MC680x0 family, coupled with the fact that it is not UNIXlike.

I have occasonally wondered, though, what kind of apps are out there for OS-68K,
and what storage devices, file systems, etc., are supported.

Oh... just remembered... I _do_ own an OS-68K device, but I'm not sure
if it's on
or off topic... a Ramp Networks Web Ramp... I was poking around on the
maintenance
console and discovered that it's running OS-68K on a 68330 chip.  FWIW.

-ethan