Author: jeff (oh-lyndhurst2a-114.clvhoh.adelphia.net)
Date: 11-16-2001 04:30
I realize that it is unfair to compare PC/GEM to any of our current AES's. My point was, why should we go back in time and start with PC/GEM, which is 1985 technology, when we already have 2002 technology on the actual Atari hardware.
I also think that using straight TOS for a port would be worthless. I think many serious users want a modern Atari OS like MiNT or MagiC to run natively on PC hardware (or whatever hardware). If you want to run TOS on a PC, use an emulator. People should be looking to port MiNT or MagiC and have them boot directly from hard disk on PC hardware. That means no DOS, no Windows, no Linux to start the Atari OS.
Porting the Atari GEMDOS calls onto another OS like BSD is quite interesting and I would support an idea like that. Then the GEMDOS would actually be a BSD kernel, which sounds odd, but would still provide a native Atari OS.
superst wrote:
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Its totally unfair to compare PC/GEM to what we have now in terms of AES's VDI's etc... because these are mostly replacement components. They weren't written in 1985.
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