Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-lcc!ptsfa!amdahl!drivax!alexande
From: alexande@drivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Minor historical point: the origin of ms-dos
Message-ID: <827@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 14:00:05 EST
Article-I.D.: drivax.827
Posted: Mon Jan 26 14:00:05 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Jan-87 05:55:58 EST
References: <8520@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1270@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <14439@amdcad.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Organization: Kludges 'R' Us, Inc.
Lines: 24
Xref: watmath comp.sys.m68k:173 comp.sys.ibm.pc:1174

In article <14439@amdcad.UUCP> bandy@amdcad.UUCP (Andy Beals) writes:
>In article <1270@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>Technically, the Atari doesn't even HAVE an OS.  
>>A DOS, maybe,
>
>DOS stands for "Disk Operating System".
>
>>The Atari's BIOS is an attempted clone of MS-DOS
>
>Wrong.  If you would sit down and read the CP/M68K manuals, you would [...]

Wrong.  The OS on the Atari (called TOS or GEMDOS) is NOT, repeat NOT,
CP/M-68K.  It really was an attempt to make an MS-DOS look-alike for the
68K.  This design decision made it easier to port GEM from the PC to
the Atari.  TOS contains NO code from CP/M-68K, although some of the
console I/O calls have the old CP/M flavor, as does MS-DOS.

Yes, the CP/M-68K tools like the Alcyon compiler were ported to TOS.
But TOS is not CP/M-68K underneath, even though such rumors are printed
in computer hobbyist magazines that should know better.
-- 
Mark Alexander	...{hplabs,ucbvax!decvax}!decwrl!pyramid!amdahl!drivax!alexande
"This then is my story.  I have reread it.  It has bits of marrow
sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies."  --Nabokov