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[I don't have an ST and I don't have any connection with the folks who
did the port, or with Whitesmiths, who wrote Idris.  I just thought you
might want to know.  I have interspersed my unbiased :-) opinions in [] -- gnu]

A sheet ended up floating around the vendor information tables at Usenix.
I quote:

IDRIS 3.0

Computer Tools International Inc is proud to announce porting of the Idris
operating system to the Atari ST computers.  Idris is a mature Unix-like
operating system that is compatible with 1984 /usr/group standard for
Unix-like systems.  It has a rich set of utilities for file and text
manipulation.  Idris provides a large array of inter process
communication facilities, such as pipes, shared memory, locks, and messages.

Features: true multi-user and multi-tasking, real-time support for
embedded applications, C and pascal compilers and function
libraries, assembler and debugger, C graphics output library (VDI output
functions), TOS cross development utilities, pascal to c translator,
support for modem, printer and midi ports of the ST, supports 520ST and
1040ST computers.

Suggested retail prices:  [the usual unbundled BS -- gnu]

Idris with utilities:	$400
executive[kernel], IPC, device drivers for Atari & Supra disks, and
serial port drivers.

C and Pascal compilers:	$200
Whitesmiths C and Pascal; function libs; archive and librarian; debugger
[I haven't used Whitesmiths compilers but have heard bad things about
them for years. -- gnu]

text and document preparation utilities:	$200
text formatter, output device filters, macro capability

[Not clear which, if any, of these packages includes the usual Unix
utilities; assembler; or pascal-to-C; I suspect they are all extra. -- gnu]

For more info contact:
	Computer Tools International Inc.
	720 South 333rd St, suire 101
	Federal Way, WA  98003   USA
	Phone +1 206 838 4990

[Personally, I recomment waiting for Minix or GNU, which cost only 10%
of this and you get source in the bargain.  Idris was one of those
"Unix-like" systems that never really got very close, from what I've
heard.  Then again, it can't be worse than TOS.  --gnu]

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