dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA (09/16/85)
From: Dan Franklin <dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA>
I just bought a book on the Atari ST ("Inside the Atari ST", or something like
that; look for a trade pb with lots of typos and grammatical errors, that's the
one!) It says that the Atari has two operating systems:
a version of CP/M-68K enhanced with system calls for the
special Atari hardware (called TOS), and
GEM, running ON TOP OF TOS (if you can believe that).
So the Atari, at least, uses semi-standard OS software... Just think of all
the millions of CP/M-68K programs out there!
Dan Franklinjimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) (09/29/85)
In article <3668@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA writes: >From: Dan Franklin <dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA> > >I just bought a book on the Atari ST ("Inside the Atari ST", or something like >that; look for a trade pb with lots of typos and grammatical errors, that's the >one!) It says that the Atari has two operating systems: > > a version of CP/M-68K enhanced with system calls for the > special Atari hardware (called TOS), and > > GEM, running ON TOP OF TOS (if you can believe that). > >So the Atari, at least, uses semi-standard OS software... Just think of all >the millions of CP/M-68K programs out there! > > Dan Franklin What "millions of CP/M68K programs"? CP/M *80* is a very popular environment. CP/M 68K is almost unused compared to Xenix (and other Bell based Unix clones), Unix and OS-9. Most 68K applications are custom programs in general, but there are good Spreadsheets, Word Processors, Database Managers and Terminal packages under OS-9, etc. Probably much more than under CP/M 68K. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura