VERSAdos
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VERSAdos is an operating system dating back to the early 1980s for use on the Motorola 68000 development system called the EXORmacs which featured the VERSAbus and an array of option cards. They were typically connected to CDC Phoenix disk drives running one to four 14-inch platters. The EXORmacs was used to emulate a 680xx processor in-circuit, speeding development of 680xx based systems. It also hosted several compilers and assemblers. VERSAdos and the EXORmacs were produced by Motorola's Microsystems Division.
VERSAdos is an operating system dating back to the early 1980s for use on the Motorola 68000 development system called the EXORmacs which featured the VERSAbus and an array of option cards. They were typically connected to CDC Phoenix disk drives running one to four 14-inch platters. The EXORmacs was used to emulate a 680xx processor in-circuit, speeding development of 680xx based systems. It also hosted several compilers and assemblers. VERSAdos and the EXORmacs were produced by Motorola's Microsystems Division.
Overview
VERSAdos was a real-time, multi-user operating system. It was the follow on product to the single user MDOS that ran the 6800 development system called the EXORciser. Both systems features a harness with a CPU socket compatible connector. A Modula 2 compiler was ported to VERSAdos.
Commands
The following list of commands and utilities are supported by VERSAdos. ^ ACCT ARGUMENTS ASSIGN BACKUP BATCH BSTOP BTERM BUILDS BYE CANCEL CHAIN CLOSE CONFIG CONNECT CONTINUE COPY CREF DATE DEFAULTS DEL DIR DMT DUMP DUMPANAL ELIMINATE EMFGEN END FREE HELP INIT LIB LIST LOAD LOGOFF MBLM MERGEOS MIGR MT NEWS NOARGUMENTS NOVALID OFF OPTION PASS PASSWORD PATCH PROCEED PRTDUMP QUERY R? RENAME REPAIR RETRY SCRATCH SECURE SESSIONS SNAPSHOT SPL SPOOL SRCCOM START STOP SWORD SYSANAL TERMINATE TIME TRANSFER UPLOADS USE VALID
See also
CP/M-68K
References
External links
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/motorola/versados/ https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/small-systems-at-ricm/motorola-exormacs-development-system
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