Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!GE-CRD.ARPA!montnaro%chenengo.tcpip From: montnaro%chenengo.tcpip@GE-CRD.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Standard OS for 68000-based PC's Message-ID: <8605022009.AA03120@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 2-May-86 16:55:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8605022009.AA03120 Posted: Fri May 2 16:55:00 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 4-May-86 05:28:05 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 46 Received: by chenengo.steinmetz (3.0/1.1x Steinmetz) id AA21539; Fri, 2 May 86 15:47:16 EDT Date: Fri, 2 May 86 15:47:16 EDT From: Skip Montanaro Posted-Date: Fri, 2 May 86 15:47:16 EDT Message-Id: <8605021947.AA21539@chenengo.steinmetz> To: nike!caip!cbmvax!daveh@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Cc: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu Subject: Standard OS for 68000-based PC's Dave, Your idea of one supported OS for the various 68000 machines is not unique. I think the main reason that various workstation vendors (Sun, Silicon Graphics, Masscomp, etc.) went with Unix rather than develop their own operating systems was that they bought into a big software base and saved themselves countless amounts of money developing something that just wouldn't cooperate with anything else. Why Apple, Atari, and Commodore didn't see this light I am not sure. Since they now each have their own (proprietary) operating system, it's unlikely that they will change. What if you could pick and choose between three pieces of hardware, one unifying operating system (some dialect of Unix jumps to mind), and three (or more!) graphic shells? Mac -----\ /----- Mac Shell \ / Amiga ---------- Un*x ------------ Intuition Shell / \ Atari ST-/ \----- GEM Shell It sure would be nice! Perhaps we could all start off with a decent base of software tools: compilers, SCCS, make, {n,t}roff, etc. Oh well, someday maybe someone will market a PC with that kind of foresight... ========== Skip Montanaro ARPA: montanaro@ge-crd.arpa US Mail: General Electric Company Corporate Research and Development P.O. Box 8 Bldg KW, Room C210 Schenectady, NY 12304 Phone: 518-387-7312 ==========