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From: deichert@hydra.unm.edu (Diana Eichert)
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Subject: Re: IDRIS (Was: Does anybody no anything about UNIX on an Atari ST)
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Date: 26 May 90 05:14:06 GMT
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>> ...
>>I would be intererested to hear from any users about their experience
>>with IDRIS.  I would be more interested to hear comparisons between
>>IDRIS and OS/9.
>
>
>This is just to report that I have had no responses from anyone 
>who has had their hands on IDRIS.  If there were any IDRIS
>buyers, they seem not to be on the net now.  What a pity.
>I had the impression at the time that IDRIS was ahead of 
>its time.
>
>Someone wrote and asked the address for Whitesmiths.
>I do not have it.

I had an evaluation copy of IDRIS back in the fall of '87, it was the full
up developers version with the C & Pascal compilers also.  I didn't really
do much with it as I did not win the contract that I had proposed using
the ST with IDRIS.

Whitesmith did not do the port for the ST, it was done by a company in the
Seattle area called Computer Tools International. At one of the Comdex's
many years ago Atari made lots of fan fair on how IDRIS was going to be the 
official UNIX-type OS for the ST AND then they promptly dropped it.

X-windows Rev. 10 was also ported to IDRIS by Computer Tools.  This all
I can remember as this is close to a 2.5 year memory.

diana eichert
Yrisarri Systems

deichert@hydra.unm.edu