Dave Hinz wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:03:37 -0400, Robatoy wrote:
In article ,
Juergen Hannappel wrote:

Robatoy writes:


[...]

OS 9 and previous
Virus free since Jan. 1993.

OS9 was pretty old by 1993... dou you run it on a 6809 or a 68000? ;-)

Cute.
OS 6 (SIX) wasn't even old by 1993.

I don't know OS 6, but OS9 was released at least by 1982.

....

I (think) Robotoy is referring to Mac OS 9, not Microware (Radisys) OS9.

Google found a thread from a year or so ago where a respondent posted
the following brief history...

"Assuming you [mean] OS-9 the Real-Time OS and Not OS9 the Mac OS, OS9
first
started about 1978 on the 6809 processor. It was ported to the 68K
family
about 1982. In 1987 the OS was ported to other Processors, I believe
the
x86 was the first. This was know as OS9000 at the time. Since then
OS9
has been ported to the PPC,MIPS,Hitachi H series, Sparc, ARM, and other
processors.
For a detailed timeline you might want to contact Radisys(Microware)
directly."

Brings back many old memories...some good, some not so much.