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rwmj on July 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs...

I was writing scientific X-ray detector software in the early 90s, and it all ran on ... OS-9.

(And for the newbies around, that's got nothing to do with Macs)

sixothree on July 5, 2012 [–]

I know my TRS-80 ran OS-9.

rwmj on July 6, 2012 | [–]

OS-9 was pretty cool considering it was a fully fledged multitasking OS that ran in a very tiny amount of RAM (I think 128K was the minimum?).

Of course we ran it in 8MB on 68020s which was simply luxury.

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