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