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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMDOS History
Summary: GEMDOS dying a slow, painful death.
Message-ID: <48@obie.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 16:05:59 GMT
References: <2697@dadla.TEK.COM> <1988Jan24.012514.26587@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <7340@apple.UUCP>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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In article <7340@apple.UUCP>, landon@apple.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes:
> It is very clear (though not very interesting, now) that DRI has abandonded
> GEMDOS.  Probably just as well...

It would seem that Atari is abandoning GEMDOS as well.  A.P. has fixed
much of what is wrong with it, and there are rumors of a disk OS being
distributed to developers for testing, but Atari still hasn't gotten
the blitter ROMS out to the unwashed masses yet.

Andy Tanenbaum has said he should have the ST version of Minix out
some time this spring.  I may never go back to GEMDOS.  Anything I
don't like about Minix, I can fix, or add!


P.S. - Landon, what does Apple have you working on?  An ST emulator
for the Mac II?  :-)

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