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From: randy@NLM-VAX.ARPA (Rand Huntzinger)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re:  New OS for 520ST??
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 13:53:23 EDT
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Don't be too sure the Atari folk are totally disdainful of the IBM-PC
compatable world.  TOS (or GEMDOS) used in the Atari is essentially a 68000
version of MS-DOS, and there are little things like using IBM key scan codes,
an IBM-PC compatible disk file structure, etc.  If you can write a software
emulator for an IBM-PC which runs on the Amiga, you should be able to just as
easily write one for the Atari ST, especially considering the above.  Of course
you could just put a 8086 or 80286 in a box on the side for that matter.

I'm not too sure what the folks at Atari have up their sleeve, but I doubt
they've missed anything so obvious as the position the IBM-PC has in the
market.  Neither have the Commodore people.