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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: accessing CPM/68K on the 520ST
Message-ID: <285@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 12:14:20 EST
Article-I.D.: drivax.285
Posted: Thu Feb 20 12:14:20 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 07:44:11 EST
References: <8602181908.AA07989@mitre-bedford.ARPA>
Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA
Lines: 32
Keywords: CP/M-68K, GEMDOS, TOS

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In article <8602181908.AA07989@mitre-bedford.ARPA> jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes
>Have any of you hackers out there figured out how to access CPM/68K without
>buying the $300 "developers' kit"?  According to COMPUTE! Magazine, the
>GEM desktop is "really" built on top of CPM and can be "peeled away" if you
>know how.  It seems that getting rid of GEM should cost negative, not positive
>dollars!  Has anybody figured out how to do this?

Agh, what does COMPUTE! magazine know about anything? The GEM Desktop (and
GEM in general) is NOT built on CP/M-68K. CP/M-68K doesn't support sub-
directories (aka folders), so we wrote a new operating system called GEMDOS
(renamed by Atari to TOS) that supported subdirectories and an MS-DOS
compatible file system.

You can peel GEM away if you really want; you won't have any means of
talking to GEMDOS then. What you want is the command line interpreter,
which uses that familiar old {A} prompt. And that comes with the developer's
kit. However, Dr. Dobbs has been publishing a command line interpreter for
the PC; somebody could merely adapt this for the ST and make it public domain.


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Bruce Holloway
Digital Research, Inc.
60 Garden Court
Monterey, CA  93942

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