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Re: GDOS availability

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From: Jonathan Spangler
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1986 23:53
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In article <444@atari.UUcp> neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) writes:
>GDOS will be available to users (as opposed to developers) once a few more
>fonts are completed.  Then it will be packaged and sold to everyone.
>
>-- 
>--->Neil @ Atari

Please forgive the uninitiated and uninformed, but could you explain 
a little bit more about what GDOS is exactly? When you mention fonts,
does that mean that this is more like the "real" operating system that
Atari had intended? Or is it an extension of GEM?

By the way, Hawaii distributers have been getting Atari products in, yeah!
Three cheers to Atari!

Aloha,

Jonathan Spangler
{ihnp4,vortex,dual}!islenet!jons
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From: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
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Subject: Re: GDOS availability
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Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 18:53:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  2 18:53:24 1986
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