[Coco] OT: Atari ST Firmware (Was: Re: DriveWire printing options)

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 25 December 2009, Joel Ewy wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> ...
>> Maybe I'm the oddball here ... but when the
>> coco got too small, and I was being exposed to the amiga... it was
>> natural to buy myself one.
>
>I got a used Amiga 1000 around '91 or '92 and used it alongside the CoCo
>3 for a few years.  Got the MM/1 in '94 I think but cheap PC hardware
>kept falling into my hands by that time as well.  I did play with DOS
>and Windows, but had even more fun getting SLS Linux to run on a
>'386/SX-40 with 16M of RAM, an 8-bit Paradise VGA board, and a couple
>Seagate 40M drives -- one formatted to 32M after I dug the broken-off
>R/W head out of it under something less than clean-room conditions.

Chuckle, been there, done that, worked like a champ for several years.

>> ...So the only M$ authored software here is
>> whatever may be in the roms of my coco's (several) or, slim chance at
>> best, in the roms of an atari ST I fumbled into possession of at a
>> cocofest (one of Ron's up in PA) quite a few years ago.
>
>I believe that the Atari ROMs were done by Digital Research.  So the
>Atari's TOS is inspired by Digital Research's clone (DR-DOS) of
>Microsoft's workalike (MS-DOS) of Digital Research's CP/M.  Or something
>like that.

I was under the impression that Jack Tramiel(sp?) wrote that dos cuz they 
called it Tramieldos or something similar.

>JCE
>
>>   In fact I have a certain pride in not
>> having any working winderz installs on the property. :) And I intend to
>> keep it that way.
>
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