OS/9 and software for the 6809 (was RE: trying to design my first micro- looking for "prior art")

[David Betz]

There is a free clone of OS9 called NitroOS. It's at http:// 
www.nitros9.org/.

Does that mean we're likely to see a cool 6809 board from Spare Time  
Gizmos sometime soon? Put me on the list for one!


On Dec 3, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:

>> compoobah at valleyimplants.com wrote:
>
>> Sounds like I'm back with 6809 as being easier to work with.
>> I'll sit down with what I've got here and see what I can come
>> up with (I'm more interested in designing than just having a
>> "soldering skills test").
>
>   I love fooling around with old microprocessors too, but one of my  
> issues
> is that I hate writing software for them.  After I get all the  
> hardware
> built, I'm kind of stuck with the question "Now what???"  Toggling  
> in little
> LED blinking programs and things like that gets old pretty fast.   
> That's one
> reason I picked the 6120 - OS/8 and related stuff is readily  
> available on
> the Internet - and the Elf - there's lots of original Elf software  
> around,
> plus Mike Riley did a great job writing a real disk OS for it.
>
>   I know there was at one time an OS/9 for the 6809 - does anybody  
> know the
> status of that today?  Is there other software for the 6809  
> floating around
> these days?
>
>   Of course, you may not share my hangups about writing software ...
>
> Bob
>
>
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