On Monday, May 2, 2016, Bruce H McIntosh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-05-01 03:03, Hiraghm wrote: > >> I know awhile back folks were talking about a CP/M port for the Model T. >> Earlier today I was watching some Youtube videos on CP/M, which reminded >> me of OS/9, and that got me wondering. >> OS9 is re-entrant and position independent, multi-user and multi-tasking. >> The original OS9 was designed to operate in 64k of ram. >> >> OS/9 had a lot of stuff that relied utterly upon the 6809 CPU's > architectural quirks. It was eventually ported to the 68000 and 80386. The > 8085 might be a bit of a stretch. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9 > > And it would be slow. You would have to use some expensive tricks to simulate position independent code.
CP/M is way more doable and opens up access to a lot of compilers and other applications. The roadmap and hardware is all there for the cp/m project. Just need the people and gumption to get it done. -- John.
