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From: grunau@husc2.UUCP (grunau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GDOS distribution
Message-ID: <1044@husc2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 20:51:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 25 20:51:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Nov-86 22:47:19 EST
Reply-To: grunau@husc2.UUCP (justin grunau)
Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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Ok, once again, there are a lot of apocryphal rumours going around, and a lot
of conflicting information from Atari itself.  Is there anybody out there w/
any authority to comment on the following inquiry:

Will GDOS be distributed to non-developers at any time in the near future, and
if so, at what sort of cost?  There are those who speak of GDOS as a "missing"
part of GEM, or something that was "supposed to have been included" in GEM from
the beginning:  this would imply that it should (eventually, when fully
debugged, of course) be distributed without charge:  I seem to sense that
this is unlikely.

On Neil Harris's earlier comments, I am willing to accept that GDOS is
currently available to developers:  however, contrary to what he claimed,
when I phoned Atari on Mr. Harris's information that any developer, not
only those who have purchased Atari's developer's kit, can be registered
with Atari, I was told (1) that this was not so, but that I had to buy
the full kit, Alcyon C included, and (2) that currently GDOS is only being
distributed to large, institutional developers, anyway:  not to just any
person in off the street who got the developers kit, even.  This confuses
me.  Is there any more up-to-date information available?

									JJMG
							Harvard Grad. School