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Subject: Re: More on the Atari 520ST
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 09:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 09:21:00 1985
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> {sacrificial line}
> /**** prism:net.micro / watmath!csc /  9:26 am  May 11, 1985 ****/
> 
> [Re: Atari 520ST, jsgray@watmath.UUCP writes...]
> 
> I should say a "cheap" Mac clone.  The environment didn't feel as
> polished as the Mac's.  And there is some other operating system
> underneath, which I think is CPM-68K.  I was able to break some program,
> and found myself with an "{A}" prompt.  After some fiddling I got the
> world famous "Error on drive A.  Abort, Retry, or Ignore" error, which
> you get from IBM PCs (probably all CPM or MS-DOS systems).
> /* ---------- */

The reason you get {A} and the error message is that the ST's underlying
operating system (developed by DRI along with GEM) is basically an MS-DOS
2.1 clone.  The filesystem and DOS calls are all copied from 2.1, which is
one reason DRI can claim software portability for GEM applications that
"obey the rules".  (i.e., don't use bios calls)

Yet another Microsoft atrocity perpetuated and peretrated upon an
unsuspecting world.  And this time on a 68000 no less! >sigh<

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