Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ucbvax!UOGUELPH.BITNET!SOFPJF From: SOFPJF@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: OS9 mudules to run in GEM Message-ID: <8609300312.AA02344@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 19:09:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8609300312.AA02344 Posted: Mon Sep 29 19:09:53 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 14:50:33 EDT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 Eric, you don't seem to realize: OS9 'IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM'. It's modules are all re-locatable, use OS9 I/O calls, and in short do not 'fit' onto GEM - NORMALLY. But I seem to recall (when I used my trusty old 6809 a lot more) that the assembler (and at least one C) could gen 'Native' code. But this made testing a pain, as you had to re-boot the old OS, run your code (if you were lucky you had a debugger), and then re-boot OS9 to re-EDIT, COMPILE, LINK... sad. In short, you stayed in OS9. But then the 'native' OS on the Tandy Color Computer with 64K (there I've admitted it!) was BASIC (yech), so it wasn't worth it. In short: When you boot OS9, you can still run BIOS, but you kiss TOS, and GEM goodbye (I think). And as you say, I doubt OS9 has the libraries. Now, weather the ST version of OS9 has a SIMILAR type of windowing and menu system... I don't know, havn't seen the ST version, and I don't know how far it has gotten in it's evolution. Comments anyone? /PJ