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Article #153Re: (none)
From: Bruce Holloway
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1986 20:07
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1986 20:07
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In article <94469@UB-MTS> Terry_Conklin%UB-MTS%UMich-MTS.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA writes: > However, I guess what my friend and I both feel was basically >correct. Atari did NOT write TOS, it modified CP/M68k. While I >realize writing an OS is no small feat, I think where the question >came in is that it was so vehemently stated that TOS is not CP/M68k >that we were under the impression that it was supposed to be >a total rewrite (effectively) which resembled it. TOS was a total rewrite, NOT a modification of CP/M-68K in any form nor fashion, no sources were the same, different from the ground up. And DRI did it. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Whatever I write are not the opinions or policies of Digital Research, Inc.,| |and probably won't be in the foreseeable future. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bruce Holloway ....!ucbvax!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!holloway (I'm not THAT Bruce Holloway, I'm the other one.)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site drivax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!drivax!holloway From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: (none) Message-ID: <327@drivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 15:07:37 EST Article-I.D.: drivax.327 Posted: Mon Mar 10 15:07:37 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 22:32:30 EST References: <94469@UB-MTS> Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA Lines: 23