Processor OS List

From: Jim Battle <frustum_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Tue Nov 18 22:05:23 2003

J.C. Wren wrote:

> I'm starting to compile a list of various processor, and OS's they ran. An
> OS qualifies if it was general purpose, not a dedicated OS. CP/M, Apple DOS,
> etc qualify, ROM'ed things like vxWorks does not. Forth is a special
> category, and while it will be present in the list, doesn't need to be listed
> for every processor. I'm more interested in the smaller processors, and not
> getting into 68000, NS32000, etc. However, 8 bits is not a requirement. We
> can skip over x86 family however, as that list would be huge
>
> I plan to make this the basis of a webpage. Of course, if anyone knows of
> such a page already, feelk free to point me at it. I googled around, and had
> so many hits, I couldn't find reasonable search terms to cull it with.
>
> A starting point is:
...

Processor Technology (makers of the Sol computer) produced PT-DOS, which
ran on an 8080 CPU. The OS was miles ahead of CP/M. I hope to get it
running on my Sol emulator some day soon.

I don't know if anybody mentioned NSDOS (northstar, Z80).
Received on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 22:05:23 GMT