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| What is EFFO and who should be interested in it? |
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EFFO stands for European Forum For OS-9 and was founded in 1988; its
main goal is to support Microware's multi-user multi-tasking operating
system OS-9 that runs on the 68k family of Motorola microprocessors.
This support primarily consists in providing a means of communication
between people who already use and appreciate OS-9 and those who do not
yet but would profit by doing so.
EFFO is independent from and not commercially related to any company.
It's members are companies offering OS-9 compatible hardware, OS-9
system programmers, computer clubs as well as end users such as private
computer owners, research institutes and university departments.
EFFO intends
- to provide a collection of public domain software that is of general
interest and that helps to make OS-9 more attractive to programmers
and users,
- to coordinate ports of (mainly UNIX) software (e.g. to avoid that a
particular software is ported many times and other equally important
software still is not),
- to make all the nuts and bolts of managing an operating system
available to everybody so that "the wheel has not to be re-invented
all the time".
Until the end of 1992, the rules of the game were that disks containing
the EFFO software pool were available without charge, and everybody
taking part in this service was expected to make contributions to the
pool. Initially, this concept - although somewhat idealistic and
similar to an economic system that has been abandoned recently - worked
quite well. Over the years, however, less and less contributions have
been made so that, starting in 1993, a new concept was created.
First the bad news: The distribution is no longer free of charge, there
is a handling fee in an order of magnitude comparable to all other PD
pools still being incompatible to OS-9.
And now the good news:
- The disks contain ready-to-use software that has been thoroughly
tested.
- The software is maintained and updated continuously.
- All disks come with printed guidelines of how to install and to use
the software. Some of them even have a complete user's manual in
printed form.
- The 23 forum editions and the 10 PD disks representing the EFFO
software pool as at end 1992 will - although no longer maintained
and upgraded - still be available.
In addition, EFFO now has a printed forum: every issue of the newly
founded journal OS-9 International contains several pages with EFFO
information including the most recent version of its public domain
software list. This software list will also be made available on the
EFFO bulletin board and through regular postings to international
network boards.
Please contact EFFO at
EFFO
P.O. Box
CH-8606 Greifensee
Switzerland
to obtain more information. This is also the address where all active
EFFO members can be reached in case of questions concerning particular
software packages.
Last but not least we invite you to join EFFO. As a regular member you
get some price reduction on our PD disks, and a one-year subscription
to OS-9 International is included. Your membership will be very helpful
not only in financial aspects but also as moral support: a bigger EFFO
can move bigger mountains, can't it?
Werner Stehling
(President EFFO) 93/4
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E F F O
+--------+ EUROPEAN FORUM FOR OS-9
/ [ S P.O. BOX
/ (O) / CH-8606 GREIFENSEE
/ // / 9 SWITZERLAND stehling@astro.phys.ethz.ch
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