Early OS-9 History, select content from 68 Micro Journal

 

March 1982

Microware announced the first annual OS-9 User's Seminar. GIMIX also announced they would be present at the seminar. A reader wrote in reporting that he was using OS-9 on his SWTPC (the only major system manufacture that does not seem to support OS-9 directly) and contributed a hex output routine needed to configure his terminal.

April 1982

Microware advertises OS-9 Level 2 for the first time this month. It adds a second new full page ad combining many of it's other OS-9 products, and retains the full page COBOL advert from month's past.

Frank Hogg Laboratory runs a full page ad about running FLEX and OS-9 on the Color Computer. This is the first mention of running OS-9 on a CoCo that I noticed. The ad talks about FLEX much more than OS-9 (FLEX on CoCo had been around for a few months at this point). In another article in this issue, "32K RAM for free!!", Frank Hogg mentions that OS-9 support should be possible by "early summer".

This issue also contains a user review of Microware's Pascal on a Helix OS-9 system and an ad for OmegaSoft Pascal which lists an OS-9 version.

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