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From: dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA
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Subject: Atari ST OS
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 11:29:10 EDT
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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