Basically OS-9, By Ron Voigts, 68 Micro Journal, Volume 09 Number 04, April 1984, Page 14, One of its strong features is its handling of formatted output. Other languages vary in how well they can handle the formatted output. But BASIC09 can do a very nice job of putting your lines into a form that you want
About the Author,
Terry Ritter, ..Software...FORMERLY: Staff Engineer, Motorola MOS Division, Microcomputer Systems Design Group, Jul. 1976 - Jan. 1981. ... Architect of structured BASIC language for 6809. Software Engineer, 1979-81 .... Originator and Supervising Project Engineer -- BASIC09, 1978-80, A structured BASIC language project, with operating system OS9 and associated specifications.
newsgroups: comp.os.os9, From: Colin McKay, Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. W95 and OS-9, Date: 1995/04/12, summary: Excerpts from Microware History in OS-9 Users Group Newsletter, MICROWARE NEW PRODUCT NEWSLETTER April 1979., Thank you for your inquiry about our line of 6800 family hardware and software products. We are in the process of introducing some new software so our 1979 catalog will not be ready for some time. In the interim we are presenting new product information in this newsletter. 6809 SOFTWARE. Motorola contracted Microware to produce the finest possible software for the 6809. The new software we have prepared for Motorola includes a new BASIC language system plus an operating system. This software will be available soon from Motorola and Microware.