Author: Michael.E.LandonMichael.E.Landon Date: Aug 12, 2008 16:09
I could use some help/advise about OS/9 x86 version 2.1. It's a long
story but I will try to give as short version as possible.
Back about 10 years ago, the company I work for had a control system
that used OS/9000 (as it was called at that point) on a x86 PC. It was
only used on a few systems before it was abandoned (MicroWare couldn't/
wouldn't support us like we needed and Linux was quickly becoming a
better alternative). The co-owner who developed it was the only person
who knew the OS, and he died about 5 years ago without leaving much
information for us to go on.
One of the remaining systems had a hard disk failure a couple weeks
ago. They had a backup of their data, but not the OS. I cannot seem to
figure out how to even get an installation of OS/9(000) running on a
computer, and all the current and former employees who ever worked
with it remember was there were some really quirky things that had to
be done to get it to install (to our knowledge, only the dead guy ever
succeeded in that). We have a couple sets of installation disks
(versions 1.4 - 2.1), none of which will complete the installation (I
was able to get a hold of a computer of the same brand and series as
the original installation used, so it should work).
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