Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: 8-bit death Message-ID: <3474.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 9 May 91 09:51:02 GMT References: <1991Apr28.122439.13393@sugar.hackercorp.com> <2945.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 23 Quoted from by mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz): > > When one calls an MS-DOS "interrupt" (haw, reminds me of the C= 64), > > isn't the interrupt number a byte? > By this definition, the Atari ST OS (CPM/68K) is a 4-bit OS? It uses 68000 > traps, which are 4 bits. Does it really? Wow! Is this the TOS thing people talk about (CPM? Local Atari folks talk about things called TOS and GEM)? Gak. Gak. Gak. Gak. I know the Amiga uses some of those trap vectors for various GURUs, but not as the OS interface. Gee, I never thought the ST was so primitive. > **************************************************** Awed... -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo. ***