Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!bdt!david
From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A proposal -- TOS Replacement Project
Message-ID: <448@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 22:54:01 GMT
References: <8811171507.AA19122@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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Having written a TOS compatible multitasking operating system with
real pipes etc. and knowing that the vast majority of ST programs
cheat like hell, you're going to have a very tough time implementing
GEMDOS as a sub-layer under a "clean" OS and still maintain very much
compatibility with the current assortment of ST software.  It's
possible to a certain degee, but unfortunately the system has to
have a strong GEMDOS "flavor" if you want the "not so well-behaved"
programs to work.

Again, if there really is interest in this project, I will contribute a
certain amount of the work I did to develop RTX and MT C-Shell.  How
much I contribute depends on the level of support and interest this
project generates from Atari, other commercial software developers, and
the ST user community in general.

It doesn't sound like anyone's too interested in really doing this yet.
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