Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site apple.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!apple!lsr From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari Subject: Re: GEM Message-ID: <35387@apple.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 13:08:26 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.35387 Posted: Tue Sep 17 13:08:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 02:36:29 EDT References: <511@petrus.UUCP> <974@druxo.UUCP> <575@sftig.UUCP> <186@graffiti.UUCP> <71@ucdavis.UUCP> Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Followup-To: net.micro.atari Organization: Advanced Development Group, Apple Computer Lines: 27 Xref: linus net.micro.amiga:4004 net.micro.atari:1056 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