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In article <1isna6INNonm@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>Don't bother, the guy is obviously thick, saying there is no CLI for
>the ST, (ever heard of UNIX!?  And the hundreds of other PD/shareware ones)

Look Steve, get a grip.  You know I know what I'm talking about here;
I've written programs for the ST, remember?  There's no Atari CLI;
they're all third party products.  In other words, there is no
equivalent to DOS in the Atari world -- as far as ATARI is concerned
there IS no CLI.  That's all I meant, OK?  And most programmers know
that you can get a lot more work done with a CLI than you can with WIMP
interfaces anyway.

Second, the ST doesn't run Unix.  It can't run Unix because it isn't
capable of doing virutal memory.  (It does run Minix, though; I'll
give you that they're similar.)

Finally, if you're going to followup a post of mine, you could at least
insult me by name.

>Hard drives are not 'cheap', $250 is a lot of money for poor folks like
>myself!  (For a decent drive....)

Yet you (pl.) expect us to put in the X thousand hours required to
write something Game Workbench when you can't pay the $200 or so it
costs to justify making it?

>So GEM is not a Real OS is it!?  Damn, what have I been using for the
>last 5 years then!?

An early, buggy version of a poorly designed single-tasking OS.

Dave Baggett
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