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From: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston Bannister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multi-Bashing
Message-ID: <24381@felix.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 06:18:29 GMT
References: <1350@alliant.Alliant.COM>
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From article <1350@alliant.Alliant.COM>, by rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz):
> regarding Minix, OS-9, etc. do these OS alternatives still support GEM
> AES/VDI calls or do they puntaes() (or equiv) during bootup? can i still
> execute the gulam equiv of "gem mygem.prg" from them? this seems critical
> (i apologize if i missed a similar discussion).

You've brought up a good point that may not have been clear to
everyone reading this topic.

The multi-tasking systems mentioned fall into two groups.

Extensions to GEM (i.e. you can run GEM programs):  RTX, MX2 (formerly AMULTI)

Complete operating systems (i.e. no GEM): Minix, OS-9, Idris, ...

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