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In article <94469@UB-MTS> Terry_Conklin%UB-MTS%UMich-MTS.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>To: ALL
>Subject: CP/M68k vs TOS
>
>   I would like to thank everyone who helped with my question
>about CP/M68k versus TOS. As was to be expected, everyone was
>more then helpful. Consider an indication of just who owns
>STs!
>
>   However, I guess what my friend and I both feel was basically
>correct. Atari did NOT write TOS, it modified CP/M68k....
>

Atari did not completly write TOS.  They did modify GEMDOS to suit their
needs.  It has a slightly different set of rules for interfacing with
the BDOS and the BIOS.  But it is mostly GEMDOS.

GEMDOS was a complete write of an OS done in a very short period of time
based on some prototypes we had working here at Dig.  IT is NOT CP/M anything.
It was built as a DOS emulator for the GEM system so we could get it working
on 68k systems.


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