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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: Atari's new 16 bit'r
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 08:46:22 EST
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In article <395@rlgvax.UUCP> guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:

>> I think that both Motorola and Digital Research probably have a fair
>> size stake in this matter.  In order to capture a bigger piece of the
>> 3rd party software market, they both benifit from a standardized operating
>> system that is transportable to various 68000 based machines.  Certainly
>> Apple is not offering this with their Mac, (try running MacPaint or 
>> MacWhatever off the shelf on anything but an Apple product!).

>Is Atari?  GEM may run on multiple machines, but I'd gotten the impression
>that Atari was using a proprietary OS.

In fact, the Ataris use the venerable CP/M-68K with the GSX graphics
kernel.  Not exactly a proprietary operating system.

			\tom haapanen
			watmath!watdcsu!haapanen