OS-9
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OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user operating systems, developed in the 1980s, originally by Microware Systems Corporation for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. It was purchased by Radisys Corp in 2001, and was purchased again in 2013 by its current owner Microware LP.
Key facts
- OS.name
- OS-9
- OS.caption
- RadiSys Corporation
- OS.source_model
- Closed source
- OS.kernel_type
- Real-time kernel
- OS.supported_platforms
- Motorola 6809, Motorola 680x0 CPUs, ColdFire, SuperH, ARM/XScale, MIPS, PowerPC, Intel x86 architecture
- OS.ui
- CLI in all versions, some platforms support a GUI
- OS.latest_release_version
- 6.1
- OS.marketing_target
- high-performance, high-availability real-time software solution for advanced industrial automation & control, medical instrumentation, aerospace and transportation systems
- OS.programmed_in
- C, Assembly language
- OS.prog_language
- C, Pascal, COBOL, BASIC, a Forth variant, a Unix emulating shell, etc.
- OS.language
- English
- OS.working_state
- Current
- OS.license
- Proprietary
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.microware.com
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- software version identifier
- 6.1
- name in kana
- オーエスナイン
- inception
- 1979-00-00
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Name conflicts and court decisions
- Technology
- Modern and archaic design
- Task scheduling
- Kernel modules
- Commands
- Comparisons with Unix
- Status
- References
- Further reading
- External links
OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user operating systems, developed in the 1980s, originally by Microware Systems Corporation for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. It was purchased by Radisys Corp in 2001, and was purchased again in 2013 by its current owner Microware LP.
The OS-9 family was popular for general-purpose computing and remains in use in commercial embedded systems and amongst hobbyists. Today, OS-9 is a product name used by both a Motorola 68000-series machine language OS and a portable (PowerPC, x86, ARM, MIPS, SH4, etc.) version written in C, originally known as OS-9000.