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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GDOS
Message-ID: <1691@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 23:59:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  2 23:59:52 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Dec-86 06:27:52 EST
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: Can you run GDOS programs without buying GDOS?

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I get rather irate when the radio announcer says "Iran" pronounced
like "irate".  (It's "ear-on", in case you wonder.)

I also get pretty irate when I hear that a wonderful program is about
to appear, will use GDOS, but "you have to have GDOS to use it".  What
does that mean?  You don't have to get GDOS separately to use EasyDraw,
since it is built-into the program!  (You also get a device driver for
Epson FX80 (?) on the disk.)  If I remember right, GDOS is very small
(did I hear 4K?).  And it is rather useless on its own unless you're
a developer (and you have the documentation).  So why not pass it on
with the program?  It is the device drivers which are the real problem.
Why not have each user buy (from a third party) the driver for her/his
specific device!  Why should the publisher of, say, a word processor
program, try to package it with drivers for all the printers in the world?

In short, could somebody clarify what IS "GDOS" (or its parts)???

- Moshe Braner

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation, neither overt nor covert, with any
elements, neither powerful nor powerless, in Ear-on.  Nor with Ire-ake.
And I'd rather be on vacation in Fee-rent-seh.