[Coco] [OT] Commodore 64 slow floppy

[Al Hartman]

Just not true. The OS on the Atari ST line was licensed from Digital 
Research. Both the command line and the GUI portions.

It was cheaper to license the OS than to write it from scratch, and faster. 
As an Atari-ST owner, I never found that the OS kept me from doing anything 
I wanted to do.

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Heskett

On Wednesday 22 January 2014 15:04:13 Glen VanDenBiggelaar did opine:

> Gene, I am interested why you would state that, from all I have read,
> Jack didn't give 2 hoots about the OS, as long as it was "Free". That's
> why he negotiated a one time fee for basic with MS and used GEM in the
> Atari, because it was free, or at least dirt cheap

Yep, Jack had a problem paying for a decent OS, I think he was broke most
of the time, so the 16/24/32 bit Atari ST family came with an OS he wrote,
in something like 90 days flat. Called Tramieldos. Far less capable than
the early amigados, it isn't capable of doing a whole lot that I have been
able to find.  Instead of a guru report when it got an upset tummy, it used
a 1 bit image of a cannonball type bomb, 3 wide, and you saw a lot more of
that than you did guru meditations on the miggy's.

The smaller atari's still had an M$ based dos of sorts.

Cheers, Gene
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