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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: G-Dos
Message-ID: <27537@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Mar 90 09:45:23 GMT
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Frank@umiami asks:
> Where can I get G-Dos?  I have never seen it anywhere.
> 
> Simple question, someone MUST know the answer.

You can spend big bucks licensing GDOS from Atari, you can buy something like
Degas Elite that comes with some version or other of GDOS (there have been
several), or you can forget GDOS altogether and buy G+Plus from Codehead
Software...  
 
Atari Corp spend years and years fumbling around trying to get GDOS to
work right, and never did manage to fix it.  Charles F. Johnson and John
Eidsvoog (who ARE Codehead) spent a few WEEKS reverse-engineering GDOS,
figuring out how it worked, and more importantly, how it was SUPPOSED to
work.  They then wrote a replacement for GDOS which not only worked the way
GDOS was supposed to work, but ran FASTER to boot.

The documentation for G+Plus even comes with a nice tutorial about the way
GDOS works...   FAR more than you'd normally get from Atari Corp.
 
Once again, forget about the Atari product, and get the third-party product..
 
BobR