| From: | Gareth Knight |
| Date: | 3 May 2000 at 23:51:12 |
| Subject: | Re: Poll |
Paul Hill
> 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).
That would be the 16-bit version. Atari couldn't upgrade the OS for years
because of some legal battle with DR (most likely to do with the look and
feel- check out x86 GEM on how that legal battle affected competitors).
Atari rewrote the OS from the ground up (real multitasking on a 030!) with
the advent of the Falcon. Later they licensed the OS to a 3rd party to carry
on development.
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