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The folks at Microware really should be legends in the industry for their forward-thinking software. OS-9 was doing this in 1979, before the Commodore 64 even existed, with a full-fledged UNIX-style shell environment and all of the flexibility that philosophy brought with it, in less than 64 kilobytes!
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Ask most programmers which consumer (non-mainframe/UNIX/'big-iron') system was able to do multitasking and/or timesharing you'll usually get answers of the Commodore Amiga, or the PC, or the Mac. This operating system has been really short-changed by history. The OS of which I speak is the OS-9 RTOS by Microware: a microkernel which was originally written for the Motorola 6809 CPU as a contract from Motorola to showcase their new CPU (most famously used on the Tandy Color Computer, various GIMIX systems, the Sharp X68000 series in Japan, and the Fairlight/CMI synthesizers of the early 80s), then ported to the Motorola 68k series of processors, the x86, ARM and Hitachi SH series, amongst others. However, there was a damn good operating system written for this CPU which I just can't stand to see die slowly, rotting on lost floppy discs and SCSI drives.
#OS 9 EMULATOR SOFTWARE#
It had a beautiful instruction set and a clean architecture, from software all the way down to the bus protocols. The Motorola 68000, sadly, is mostly a relic nowadays. I appreciate your patience please check back periodically to see if I've finally fixed this to work on modern x86_64 Windoze installations and hopefully Linux, where I'm spending more time nowadays. I do intend to look into the issue (really!) but have been swamped by 'real life' the last while.
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Apparently the FAME emu, or (more likely) my abstraction on top of it, does not boot OS-9 properly on x86_64 Windows. I know the code linked here has been broken for some time.