<s>
Microware	B-Operating_System
Systems	O
Corporation	O
was	O
an	O
American	O
software	O
company	O
based	O
in	O
Clive	O
,	O
Iowa	O
,	O
that	O
produced	O
the	O
OS-9	B-Operating_System
real-time	B-Operating_System
operating	I-Operating_System
system	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microware	B-Operating_System
Systems	O
Corporation	O
existed	O
as	O
a	O
separate	O
entity	O
from	O
1977	O
until	O
September	O
2001	O
,	O
when	O
it	O
was	O
bought	O
by	O
RadiSys	O
Corp.	O
,	O
and	O
became	O
a	O
division	O
of	O
that	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
rights	O
to	O
Microware	B-Operating_System
OS-9	B-Operating_System
and	O
related	O
software	O
were	O
purchased	O
by	O
a	O
group	O
of	O
distributors	O
on	O
1	O
March	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
new	O
owner	O
was	O
Microware	B-Operating_System
LP	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microware	B-Operating_System
initially	O
produced	O
a	O
version	O
of	O
BASIC	B-Language
and	O
a	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
kernel	O
for	O
the	O
Motorola	B-Device
6800	I-Device
processor	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
was	O
asked	O
by	O
Motorola	O
to	O
develop	O
what	O
turned	O
into	O
BASIC09	B-Language
for	O
the	O
then-new	O
Motorola	B-Device
6809	I-Device
processor	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Having	O
written	O
BASIC09	B-Language
,	O
they	O
decided	O
it	O
needed	O
an	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
underlying	O
it	O
,	O
and	O
they	O
created	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
OS-9	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
OS-9	B-Operating_System
was	O
ported	O
to	O
the	O
68000	B-Device
family	I-Device
of	O
processors	O
and	O
,	O
after	O
being	O
rewritten	O
mostly	O
in	O
C	B-Language
,	O
to	O
the	O
Intel	B-Operating_System
80x86	I-Operating_System
,	O
PowerPC	B-Architecture
,	O
ARM	B-Architecture
,	O
MIPS	B-Device
,	O
and	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
Hitachi	O
SuperH	O
(	O
SH	O
)	O
series	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
days	O
of	O
the	O
SS-50	B-Architecture
bus	I-Architecture
and	O
SS-50C	O
bus	B-General_Concept
systems	O
such	O
as	O
SWTPC	O
,	O
Gimix	O
,	O
and	O
Smoke	O
Signal	O
Broadcasting	O
,	O
OS-9	B-Operating_System
was	O
used	O
more	O
as	O
a	O
general	O
purpose	O
microcomputer	B-Architecture
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
and	O
had	O
a	O
large	O
,	O
active	O
hobbyist-user	O
population	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OS-9	B-Operating_System
was	O
also	O
popular	O
with	O
industrial	O
and	O
embedded-system	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
was	O
especially	O
true	O
when	O
OS-9	B-Operating_System
was	O
available	O
for	O
popular	O
6809-based	O
computers	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
FM-7	B-Device
,	O
FM-77	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
Tandy	O
TRS-80	B-Device
Color	I-Device
Computer	I-Device
and	O
its	O
near-clone	O
,	O
the	O
Dragon	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Over	O
time	O
,	O
Microware	B-Operating_System
concentrated	O
on	O
industrial	O
customers	O
and	O
neglected	O
the	O
hobbyist	O
base	O
that	O
was	O
porting	O
a	O
great	O
many	O
Unix	B-Application
packages	O
and	O
utilities	O
to	O
OS-9	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
OS-9	B-Operating_System
and	O
OS-9000	B-Operating_System
–	O
real-time	B-Operating_System
operating	I-Operating_System
systems	I-Operating_System
for	O
a	O
wide	O
range	O
of	O
embedded	O
CPU	O
architectures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CD-RTOS	B-Operating_System
–	O
the	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
used	O
in	O
the	O
Philips	B-Device
CD-i	I-Device
players	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
a	O
special	O
version	O
of	O
OS-9/68K	O
v2.4	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ariel	O
–	O
a	O
micro	O
OS	O
based	O
on	O
an	O
OS	O
Microware	B-Operating_System
acquired	O
(	O
MTOS-UX	O
by	O
IPI	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
