Talk:OS-9

message: The article claims that OS-9 beat Apple by a number of years regarding the production of a multitasking OS with protected memory and a GUI. Apple had all of those things with its Lisa, a system that was in development for many years before it was released in 1983. Please provide proof that OS-9 beat Apple by providing dates in the article and citations.
:BASIC09 (and so OS-9 development) were contracted for by Motorola during 6809 development. The first development version of the Lisa was based on the 6809 and perforce required chips for the development effort. Since Lisa was bloated, and repeatedly delayed, the time sequence suggested is prima facie plausible. The earliest version of OS-9 was available (for Gimix hardware, IIRC) in early 1982, unless my memory is lying to me. ww 06:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why the revert?

message: To Do: OS-9 Easter Egg section.  (XCC compiler, SCF, and hidden messages in the kernel/modules.) --Allen Huffman 19:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  OS-9 Easter Eggs 

message: I removed the following:
The major limitations (in both access time and maximum capacity) is that no mass storage other than floppy disk were supported by Radio Shack, nor did Radio Shack ever release a version of the CoCo with better hardware (that is, more hardware resources). Hard disks were available only from third party sources. Radio Shack continued to emphasize the games orientation for the machine until it was discontinued.
This statement is false.  Tandy sold an MFM hard disk controller.  I remember it was listed in the 1988 radio shack catalog. Oregonerik (talk) 22:02, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  hard disk reference 

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thread_title: File:Nitros-9 CoCo.png Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: Please consider removing the 'does not meet notability guidelines' notice on this article. It has adequate references. Even if OS-9 has for the most part fallen by the wayside of OS history, the fact that it is no longer in heavy use does not mean one should ignore its history. Microware, as a player in the 1980s and 1990s RTOS market, and computing systems such as the Tandy Color Computer, the Sharp X68000, Philips' CD-I etc. were significant during their time for those not isolated to working in the IBM PC sphere. It was widely used in many industrial control systems (Allen-Bradley manuals for their OS-9 systems are still widely available on the internet as one example) and at CERN (I will research and add references if required). If the criterion for Wikipedia entries on operating systems is confined to mainstream PC 'notability', then one should also consider removing the articles for BeOS, VxWorks, PSOS, microRTX, u/COS, QNX, and any other OS of which most non-technical people have never heard. Russtopia (talk) 08:00, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:42. Notability means there are enough reliable sources so that a reasonably complete article can be written based on them. Arguing about neither WP:OLDAGE, WP:POPULARITY or that WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS helps establish that. Right now there is only one actual citation in the article. If you can find more, please go ahead and do so. And please, start new topics on the bottom. Keφr (talk) 08:38, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Unjustified Notability Guideline. Old != Non-Notable