re accessing CPM/68K on the 520 ST

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1 total messages Started by I6191008 Wed, 19 Feb 1986 12:14

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Author: I6191008
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1986 12:14

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>Have any of you hackers out there figured out how to access CPM/68K without

>buying the $300 "developers' kit"?  According to COMPUTE] Magazine, the

>GEM desktop is "really" built on top of CPM and can be "peeled away" if you

>know how.  It seems that getting rid of GEM should cost negative, not positive

>dollars]  Has anybody figured out how to do this?

PLEASE John]]]: The 520 ST is NOT using CPM/68K. It is using TOS

(Tramiels Operating System). By using the program COMMAND, you enter

the TOS which LOOKS LIKE an CPM environment, but it isn't.

ATARI wanted to use CPM/68K but it was far to slow so they wrote their

own OS. TOS is more like UNIX. So you CAN NOT run CPM/68K programs on

the ST without making some software interfacing. Anyway, COMMAND comes

with the "developers' kit". Maybe there is also a public domain version

around. Does anyone know?

Johann Zuschlag (I6191008@DBSTU1.BITNET)

PS.: I hope you don't mind John, but I get tired telling people the

     facts...

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