nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA (09/27/85)
This msg was meant to clear up a few misconceptions, although I think it added at least one...: > Subj: Notes on the Atari ST (about 60 lines) > > This is in response to an article by Rex Ballard which was a reply to a reply > on Amiga memory management. Since the topic is the Atari ST I decided to post ... > You also mentioned TOS, which is reportedly a version of CP/M-68K. According > to the documentation I have, it is not. TOS is a variant of a Digital > Research operating system called GEMDOS, which looks very much like a 68K > implementation of MS-DOS (or PC-DOS if you prefer). Like MS-DOS, it has a GEM (not GEMDOS) is NOT an operating system. It is an operating environment which is run on top of an operating system. TOS (which may-or-may-not be a variant of CPM-68k) is the operating system. It would look very much like the IBM PC-DOS in its structure, as GEM was originally intended for use on the IBM-PC. The GEM running on the ST IS the DR operating environ- ment, not a variant thereof. I think that covers it..... -Richard Hartman max.hartman@ames-vmsb ------