lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) (09/17/85)
In article <71@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrdan@ucdavis.UUCP (Dan Gold) writes: >> I thought that the ATARI was using a variant of CP/M-68K. That was what my >> fallible sources informed me (confirmation or denials, anyone?). > >I believe that the Atari will be using the GEM system or something very >similiar. > >Dan Gold My understanding is that GEM does not replace the operating system, but instead provides a common library of window management functions. (It may also provide a common interface for the basic operating system calls.) When you run GEM on an IBM-PC, you are using a different OS than when you run it on an Atari ST. For example, if the underlying OS only provided for 8-character file names, then icons could only have 8-character names. If the OS allows file names with spaces in them then icon names can have spaces in them. -- Larry Rosenstein Apple Computer UUCP: {voder, idi, nsc, ios, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET
aer@alice.UucP (y) (09/20/85)
What does Mr. Franklin mean by "the millions" of CP/M-68K programs out there? CP/M-68K is the new 68000 mpu (hence 68K) version of CP/M, or an MS-DOS hybridized son-of-CP/M. Is it true that CP/M-68K programs are actually out for machines other than the ST? I've never seen any myself, so I must wonder. And would they be at all compatible with the ST? A totally unrelated question: Please be subjective: What is (barring price) a better deal- an ST or an AMig ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- D. Rosenberg on Murray Hill /\ ATT/BTL tel:1-201-464-5269 uucp: ..!ihnp4!alice!aer My opinions are my own.
ditzel@ssc-bee.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) (10/10/85)
Question : given Apple "software piracy"...that is ripping off the icon nature of the user interface from Xerox's Star ...Can Xerox sue Apple for copyright infringement?? Observation: It seems the "new" Apple is trying to do legally what they cannot do technologically (keep their share of the computer market). Given the two year lead time the mac had on the competition it's ashame they have squandered there time with internal bickering. Who knows maybe when the next Apple super bowl ad comes out will get to see "the open color mac". On to some other questions ... What is "portab.h" and "obind.h"? Are these include files simply accessible to GEM Developers or can they be acquired and used by people using Hippo C compilers?