Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccrdan From: ccrdan@ucdavis.UUCP (Dan Gold) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: Welcome! Message-ID: <71@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 03:39:21 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.71 Posted: Sun Sep 15 03:39:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:48:22 EDT References: <511@petrus.UUCP> <974@druxo.UUCP> <575@sftig.UUCP> <186@graffiti.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.micro.amiga:142 net.micro.cbm:1715 > > It would seem that > > OS9/68K would be an ideal substrate for the 'visual/mac-type' user > > interface that they provide. Does anybody know why they decided to "go > > their own way" and develop custom OS's for their machines. Are the OS9 > > developers so unreasonable about relicensing that this was impossible? > > 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 ...ucbvax!ucdavis!minnie!ccrdan -- Dan Gold ...ucbvax!ucdavis!minnie!ccrdan