Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!tainter
From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: $$$FREE$$$ multitasking kernal!
Keywords: OS-9, OSK, multitasking, multiuser, realtime
Message-ID: <4693@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 88 03:42:42 GMT
References: <701@yugas.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <701@yugas.UUCP>, avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE) writes:
> 
> Get OS-9/68000 (the personal version is about 150.00). I have been using it
> for about one year on the Atari-ST and have never touched GEM/TOS since.

Your available software just got very limited if you aren't going to use
GEM/TOS, especially graphics.  Note:  I don't really use the mouse interface
myself since it is so crappy compared to the Mac.  I have a home brew UNIX ksh
like environment.

> OS-9/68000 is a TRUE/FAST/REAL    multitasking/multiuser system...
                           add  ^/REALTIME   here
> Unix(TM etc.) is almost as good as OS-9....

This may have been humor, but when you are talking about a small machine with
no MMU OS/9 is FAR superior to UNIX except in volumn of software.  Although
the available software that would run under UNIX on anything but a 2 Meg
memory and 20 Meg hard disk ST is rather limited....
Maybe a shared segment version with the kernel and standard libraries stuck
out on the ROM port?  Hum, that might work.
Idris has a bad reputation on the PC.  But, what should we expect? CP/M 68K
and GEM have bad reputations too.  That's why Atari gets them cheap enough
for their tastes.

> -----Avygdor Moise

--j.a.tainter