I6191008@DBSTU1.BITNET (02/19/86)
>Have any of you hackers out there figured out how to access CPM/68K without >buying the $300 "developers' kit"? According to COMPUTE] Magazine, the >GEM desktop is "really" built on top of CPM and can be "peeled away" if you >know how. It seems that getting rid of GEM should cost negative, not positive >dollars] Has anybody figured out how to do this? PLEASE John]]]: The 520 ST is NOT using CPM/68K. It is using TOS (Tramiels Operating System). By using the program COMMAND, you enter the TOS which LOOKS LIKE an CPM environment, but it isn't. ATARI wanted to use CPM/68K but it was far to slow so they wrote their own OS. TOS is more like UNIX. So you CAN NOT run CPM/68K programs on the ST without making some software interfacing. Anyway, COMMAND comes with the "developers' kit". Maybe there is also a public domain version around. Does anyone know? Johann Zuschlag (I6191008@DBSTU1.BITNET) PS.: I hope you don't mind John, but I get tired telling people the facts...