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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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> It would seem that
> OS9/68K would be an ideal substrate for the 'visual/mac-type' user
> interface that they provide.  Does anybody know why they decided to "go
> their own way" and develop custom OS's for their machines.  Are the OS9
> developers so unreasonable about relicensing that this was impossible?

I thought that the ATARI was using a variant of CP/M-68K. That was what my
fallible sources informed me (confirmation or denials, anyone?).