The OMU Kernel was written to provide a cut-down Unix-like O/S for ahome-made 6809-based home computer built by me, Steven Hosgood, in theearly 1980s. This package contains the RTOS version of omu68k, derivedfrom a port of the original 6809 code to the 68000 done by Terry Barnabyand me.The basic 68000 OMU added a certain amount of multi-tasking, hard disk supportand bothers to support the UID/GID fields of the filestore - none of whichthe 6809 version had. This RTOS variant features changes to the signalhandling which proved useful for research into "virtual instruments" doneby Terry Barnaby and others in the dept. of Electrical and ElectronicEngineering at Swansea University in the mid to late 1980s.It should still be able to work, but getting it to do so is up to you!There is no top-level makefile, and the lower-level makefiles probablywon't work without tweaking. The FreeDOS project have a useful-looking generic boot system for PCs, plusa C-compiler. That's where I would start...... Bear in mind that theoriginal compiler that was used treated 'int' as 16-bit signed and 'char'as 8-bit signed. It also packed structs such that multi-byte quantitiesalways started on even addresses.I offer up these sources for the amusement of experimenters and wish youall best wishes in getting it working. I can offer no technical supportand no guarantees of suitability for any particular job. However, I would beglad to receive feedback from anyone who does get it going, and would behappy to add mention of successful experiments onto my WWW page.If you ship me runnable binaries or offer me sources for new drivers orother such things I will be happy to make them downloadable from myWWW page(s) too.Happy Experimenting!Steve Hosgood <iisteve@iiit.swan.ac.uk>