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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A proposal--TOS Replacement Project
Keywords: TOS, replacement project, STOS
Message-ID: <76608@sun.uucp>
Date: 8 Nov 88 23:30:53 GMT
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <700@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> pa1132@sdcc15.UUCP () writes:
[Suggests users write a new version of TOS.]

I have another suggestion that may work better in this case. 
One of the reasons that ARP on the Amiga has been successful
is that a lot of the DOS internals are documented and the 
technical folks are usually quick to give in depth technical
answers to developer questions. (both on Usenet and on BIX where
they reside "officially") Unfortunately a similar situation does
not exist for the ST developer community. 

There is hope though, in that now MINIX is available for the ST
and it should be possible to build a window system on top of MINIX
that would be a good substitute for TOS. If TOS compatible library 
calls could be implemented then you have a shot at replacing it
with something that a) doesn't require Atari support, and b) has
all or most of the source code available for it. (It is also
multitasking which is a *big* win when you are programming
window systems)

So maybe this might be an alternate tack that could yield some
quite successful results for everyone.


--Chuck McManis
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