Re: Apple OS9 system not recognising email files sent from Windows98

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote in message news:<3D7F5AEE.5020806@noneofyourbusiness.com>...
> David Empson wrote:
> > Mike Pfaiffer <mike@digitalcivilization.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>NJS wrote:
> >>
> >>>Can any Apple or Windows user tell me why when I send email
> >>>attachments from my Windows 98 machine (using outlook)to an Apple OS9
> >>>the file sometimes appears as "winmail.dat" and cannot be opened.  Is
> >>>there a fix?
> >>
> >>      As others have pointed out, Apple never made a product called OS9.
> >>However they did make an operating system for the Macintosh called 
> >>"System 9".
> > 
> > 
> > No they didn't.  It is called "Mac OS 9".  (They started using "Mac OS"
> > instead of "System" as of version 7.6.)
> > 
> > Further to another poster's comment about the operating system for the
> > 6809: it was "OS/9" 
> 
> As in OS/2?
> 
> Level One or Level Two? Level One worked on TRS-80 CoCo 2, one had to 
> have a CoCo 3 to run Level Two. The 3 had a 68E09B as I recall.
> 
> Wasn't OS 9 a sort of ROMable Unix?
> 
> Roy
> 
> (not "OS9") if I remember right.
> >

"OS-9" wasn't it?