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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A proposal--TOS Replacement Project
Message-ID: <1681@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 08:00:45 GMT
References: <700@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> <5196@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <5196@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <700@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, pa1132@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1132) says:
>> Well, everybody is tired of waiting for Atari to improve the ST,
>> right?  Atari is hopeless.  Then, why not improve it by ourselves?

Yea!
Right!

A lot of people already started (here in Germany an in France).

Turbodos seems to be an replacement for GEMDOS, David Beckemeyers RTX
replaces BIOS, XBIOS (and GEMDOS?)...
A german guy hacked TOS functions to act exactly like theit MsDOS
counterparts....


First we need a list of (documented :-) features, we would like (my list
below), later we'll just write a new operating system from it...


Do not misunderstand me (if You understand my "English" at all): 
to build a new operating system featuring TOS compatibility,
multitasking, 020 support, fast code, no bugs and so on, would take
forever, right?

But that would be half the time, we wait for Atari to give it to us...


Well, let's try!

hase
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