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. The OS-9 family was popular for general-purpose computing and remains in use in commercial embedded systems and amongst hobbyists. It was purchased by Radisys Corp in 2001, and was purchased again in 2013 by its current owner Microware LP. 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. Motorola 6809, Motorola 680x0 CPUs, ColdFire, SuperH, ARM/XScale, MIPS, PowerPC, Intel x86 architectureĬLI in all versions, some platforms support a GUI High-performance, high-availability real-time software solution for advanced industrial automation & control, medical instrumentation, aerospace and transportation systems Microware bought by Radisys in 2001 (since 2013 owned by Microware LP) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
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