GEM-OS

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Fri Apr 5 16:31:55 2002

Don't forget Diamond which is a GEM TOS "look-alike" version designed for
the Atari 8bits which original came on disk and then came on Super Cartridge
format. Designed by Reevesoft.


Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason King" <jhking_at_airmail.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:55 PM
Subject: GEM-OS


> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > > 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.
>
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