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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Subject: Re: Atari ST OS
Message-ID: <813@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 18:47:55 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 18:47:55 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 00:41:19 EDT
References: <3668@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
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Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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Summary: CP/M 68K v. almost anything?

In article <3668@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA writes:
>From: Dan Franklin 
>
>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
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