You mentioned OS/9 in your post. I had read about that decades ago and had no idea that it was still in use.
Indeed it's now available for PowerPC and Intel x86 boards as well as the 68xxx family. I've not played with a modern variant such as OS/9000 but I'd say that old-school OS/9 is good for hard-realtime projects that need a light, superficially *NIX-like operating system.
Could you expound a bit on what you're doing with it and why it is the preferred OS for that project?
It was the preferred target platform at my last employer, a manufacturer of broadcast automation equipment. OS/9 is really good for this sort of thing because it incurs very little source-code overhead for developers, and when you're routing 30+ video channels for live transmission the code looks enough like spaghetti already (we were using about 700KLOC of pre-ANSI C and 100+KLOC of assembler as it was). Not that I dealt with that side of things except for writing the occasional device handler - I was mainly developing VB applications that interfaced WinNT and MySQL to the system using a legacy, in-house, non-TCP/IP, non-routed network protocol via a DOS emulation layer >:(
I should point out that I inherited this architecture from my predecessor...
Eleanor
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