WEGA (operating system)
| WEGA | |
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 Home screen |
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| developer | Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow "Friedrich Ebert" |
| License (s) | Proprietary |
| First publ. | 1986 |
| Current version | 3.1 (1989) |
| ancestry |
Unix ↳ System III ↳ WEGA |
| Architecture (s) | MME U880 , MME U8001 |
| compatibility | System III |
| Installation medium | 11 disks |
| Languages) | English |
WEGA is a unixoid system that was developed for the 16-bit versions of the P8000 and P8000 Compact microcomputers from the Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow "Friedrich Ebert" in the GDR .
The system is based on Unix System III and is compatible with it. Accordingly, it is also multitasking and multi-user capable (for a maximum of eight users). After installation, WEGA runs from the hard disk and was delivered on eleven floppy disks. WEGA's two-stage start process required the UDOS operating system to be started on the 8-bit MME U880 processor of the P8000. Then the computer was switched to 16-bit mode for the 16-bit processor U8001 by a special command so that WEGA could be loaded from the hard disk. The previously started UDOS continued to run invisibly on the 8-bit computer while WEGA was running. An interface implemented in the WEGA kernel communicated via a parallel host interface with the WEGA program of the same name running under UDOS. This interface enabled transparent access from the WEGA running on the 16-bit computer to certain resources of the 8-bit computer. These available resources included the two 5.25 ″ floppy disk drives, the EPROM burner , the serial system terminal and three further serial interfaces to which further terminals or modems could be connected.
Two versions of the operating system are known: WEGA 3.0 and the further developed WEGA 3.1. Neither of them had graphics support ex works, as the P8000 terminals usually only worked in text mode. In terms of performance and flexibility, WEGA was superior to many of the operating systems used in the GDR at the time, but could not achieve great importance due to the small number of P8000 computers produced.
Available application programs
- Word processing : WEGA-WORD
- Spreadsheet : WEGA-CALC
- Database system : WEGA-DATA
- Database system: ING_DB - based on Ingres 6
- Terminal emulation : WEGA-REMOTE
- Cross-Compiler : WEGA-CROSS - for MME U880 , MME U88x , K1810WM86
- Emulator : WEGA-emUDOS - UDOS emulator
- Emulator: WEGA-emSCP - SCP -Emulator
Available programming languages
Web links
- Operating system WEGA. In: robotrontechnik.de. Rüdiger Kurth, July 15, 2012, accessed October 24, 2012 .
- Oliver Lehmann: EAW P8000. In: www.pofo.de. Retrieved July 15, 2012 .