GEM-OS

From: Jason King <jhking_at_airmail.net>
Date: Fri Apr 5 15:55:44 2002

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> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:36:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
> Subject: Re: GEM OS was: CP/M and Imsai
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> > I've asked this before, but how close is the Commodore GEOS to the Gem
> > one ? The desktop at least is virtually identical.
>
> I don't think it is, myself. Berkeley Softworks supposedly modeled it on the
> Macintosh.
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> > Does it have an underlying
> > system greatly different from TOS and AES(?) ?
>
> Not knowing much about the internals of TOS ...
>

In Geos the whole OS was coded in 6502 assembler. Couldn't make an 8bit gui work with slowpokes like C.
GEM and TOS (as I understand) were partly host assembler (8088 or 68000) and part c. No commonality
under the hood at all.
Received on Fri Apr 05 2002 - 15:55:44 BST