Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!nlm-vax.arpa!randy From: randy@NLM-VAX.ARPA (Rand Huntzinger) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: New OS for 520ST?? Message-ID: <8509241753.AA02598@nlm-vax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 13:53:23 EDT Article-I.D.: nlm-vax.8509241753.AA02598 Posted: Tue Sep 24 13:53:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 07:39:03 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 11 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.