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They meant Microware's OS9/68K operating system. Microware got bought by Radisys a number of years back. I would think at this point that OS9/68K is pretty much on life support. It is an embedded systems operating system, not a desktop system (or at least not a very good desktop system). Here's a link to the OS9 page.

and the reason you won't find many tools to help you author them, is basically this:

every CD-BGM disc also needs to include a CD-i application to allow for playback on a CD-i player.

If you read the CD-i spec, you'll see that it's basically just a generic "autoplay" type of disc. In fact, it may not even be that generic. Apparently, the CD-i machine either runs the OS-9 realtime operating system (made by these guys) or it's loaded from the disc itself.

So, to make your own discs, you need to add a software program (or maybe even an entire OS) along with the content.

about OS-9?

Maybe I just haven't read far enough yet.

No, they call it "Mac OS X Tiger". That's important to note because Apple faced a trademark dispute over Mac OS 9 from the makers of OS-9.

Anyways, if Intel can get away from clock-speed ratings, I hope it can get away from 100 watt processors. Where are the quiet and efficient Pentium M desktop systems? Some companies are designing motherboards for them, but there isn't anything easily available. I'm typing this on a 1.3GHz Celeron system (the 1GHz VIA C3 was just a little too slow, crippled by its tiny cache and weak FPU...I'm using the same near-silent heatsink setup as before, and getting 38 degrees versus 32), but a Pentium M would be ideal for a quiet but powerful general-purpose system.

Thanks! The LS855 looks like the only one that's a conventional motherboard (not mini-ITX, but with AGP/PCI slots and multiple memory slots) but no sites seem to sell it or offer prices.

this is what you want, if price isn't a big concern

That's a microATX pentium M board with an AGP slot and the usual onboard goodies. If you can find some place to buy one, that would be ideal. Boxed Pentium M's aren't hard to find, and putting one in a desktop would allow you to get very good performance while using very little power, without sacrificing the modularity of desktop platforms.

So, call up Radisys and have them send you a LS855 with the Pentium M onboard! That's what I'm looking into (just waiting on quotes for 1 unit of either their CPU-less model or one with a 1.3GHz Pentium M).

The Radisys LS855 costs about $350 (or so I've heard), but it's a mATX Pentium M desktop board. Therefore, it's entirely possible for Radisys to get sudden demand, then they'll increase supply to the point that PentM desktop boards are REALLY cheap.

At least it's Micro-ATX, and not Mini-ITX (if you don't like Intel graphics)! It's the Radisys LS855, and their product page for it is http://www.radisys.com/oem_products/ds-page.cfm?pr oductdatasheetsid=1158.

IBM
HP
Intel,
Crystal PC,
Force Computer,
RadiSYS

There are many many Intel server vendors but there
are only handful who makes NEBS compliant ones.

Is it Microware's OS-9, or Apple Mac OS 9?

Microware's OS-9 is an ideal solution for such a project. The OS will run in a few K of RAM and has complete network stacks as I recall.
THe OS runs on most chips from 6809(68K now) onward.

OS-9 was a cute little real-time operating system for Motorola chips. Apparently they're still around, though Microware has been bought out by Radisys. They've ported it to half a dozen chips (mainly ARM/MIPS/etc but also x86) and it's got a lot more development environment with it than it had 15 years ago.