🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8609300312.AA02344@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> SOFPJF@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) writes:
>
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>But then the 'native' OS on the Tandy Color Computer with 64K (there I've
>admitted it!) was BASIC (yech), so it wasn't worth it.
>
>   In short: When you boot OS9, you can still run BIOS, but you kiss TOS,
>and GEM goodbye (I think).  And as you say, I doubt OS9 has the libraries.
>Now, weather the ST version of OS9 has a SIMILAR type of windowing and
>menu system... I don't know, havn't seen the ST version, and I don't know
>how far it has gotten in it's evolution.  Comments anyone?

     I've been using OS-9 68K on the Atari for few days now (a week?)
and it's quite good, but doesn't currently have a GEM-like interface.
Rather, the /term emulates a Televideo 925 (not knowing much about
that particular terminal I can't say whether it's a complete emulation,
but I doubt it).  The RESET vector does not seem to be affected by
OS-9.  At least, if you reboot, you do so all the way back to GEM.
This is very inconvenient for a floppy disk system, but for a
Hard disk user it won't have much consequence.  It does seem, however,
that GEM is still around if you can figure out a way to get at it.
I'm guessing in this much, but you never know till you try.



Cheers! -- Jim O.
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