Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jgp From: jgp@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Goncalo Pedro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ST/Amiga Blitter & ST OS (CP/M/GEM?) Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 90 11:26:06 GMT References: <746.2691bf77@desire.wright.edu> Sender: news@fctunl.rccn.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: arc@desire.wright.edu's message of 4 Jul 90 15:05:42 GMT In article <746.2691bf77@desire.wright.edu> arc@desire.wright.edu writes: 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 REPLY, I'm sick of stupid people. The ST's OS, which is TOS (Tramiel Operating System in the good old days, The Operating System nowadays (official name from DR as I read from csbrod?), Thirty-two Operating System (32-bit, geddit)) is from Digital Research, which wrote CP/M. While they were writing the OS for the ST, they based it in CP/M 68K, a version for the MC68000, and that's where the CP/M base comes from. Mind you, it's just based on, not real CP/M. -jp -- --- Jose Goncalo Pedro BITNET/Internet: jgp@fctunl.rccn.pt +---------------------------------+ UUCP: jgp@unl.uucp | Departamento de Informatica +----------------------------------+ | Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2825 Monte Caparica, PORTUGAL | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+