| From: | Paul Hill |
| Date: | 3 May 2000 at 00:24:21 |
| Subject: | Re: Poll |
On 02-May-00 20:56:42, Gareth Knight wrote:
>Sam Thomas <
>> I notice that there is a AtariST OS option. Has someone got the rights to
>> the AtariST? I don't know anything about Atari nowadays, Is it still
>going?
>> Last I heard wsa that they were just about 'dead' because of the Jaguars
>> failure
>Atari was sold to Hasbro last year. The only thing they've done with it so
>far is produce new versions of classic games and allow 3rd party
>manufacturers to produce Jaguar games without a licence. A few months ago
>Milan (I think) were in discussions to purchase the Atari TOS. Current Atari
>machines use PCI and USB slots. There are also plans to port the OS to PPC.
Part of Atari's OS is based on CP/M and the gfx system was GEM. Both were
written by Digital Research, which last I heard of was owned by Caldera
(probably aquired DR's assets to aid it's M$ monopoly trial).
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