Ataris

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 21:26:04 1998

Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Not sure about the 800XL, I've never gotten any of my 8-bit Atari's up and
> running. I've got a 520ST, which is unfortuanatly missing the powersupply
> for the floppy drive, and a TT030, both of which are TOS based systems.
> TOS and GEM are related. It's actually a VERY cool system as the entire
> OS, which is a GUI, is in ROM. However, it is a single task system, and in
> my not so humble opinion the interface sucks. Still I think they are VERY
> COOL! I know saying it sucks, and saying it's cool doesn't make a lot of
> sense :^)

It's apparently discontinued by Microware, but for a while OS-9 (well,
OS-9 68000 otherwise known as OS-K) was available for the ST systems,
which _was_ truly multitasking -- and had been on any TRS-80 Color
Computer (or Dragon) with 64k of RAM. I'm looking for a copy for the
ST's (one 520, one 1040) that I've got, not being that big a fan of
GEM though it looked _real_ good on the Tandy 2000 back in '85.
-- 
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
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with a question as to why there's only one Justice Department?
Received on Mon Aug 24 1998 - 21:26:04 BST

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