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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST/Amiga Blitter & ST OS (CP/M/GEM?)
Message-ID: <2959@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 5 Jul 90 22:50:13 GMT
References: <746.2691bf77@desire.wright.edu>
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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arc@desire.wright.edu writes:

>  Here's a "nice" question for you ST people.  It's about the blitter, of
>course.  I know you guys can "hack" and put a blitter in the 520/1040, and that
>the MEGA, STe(?), and TT(?) come with one.  But what are the blit sizes for
The TT has no blitter. Blitters don't make sense in a 68030 system with
burst transfers. Well, not much sense, that is.

>THIS!  OH, ONE MORE important question.  A programmer friend of mine told me
>that ST's OS (1.4 in the 520/1040?) is/was CP/M with a GEM overlay?  Is that
>true?  And, if you DON'T know what the heck you're talking about, PLEASE DON'T
That's not correct. TOS is based on GEMDOS which is much more of a DOS clone
than some CP/M derivate. GEM, consisting of AES and VDI, sits on top of it.


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