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- From: mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John)
- Subject: New operating systems (OS/2-TOS)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.191802.22099@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
- Keywords: The future
- Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 19:18:02 GMT
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- If there is a grand future for Atari, I have a few comments on
- future operating systems.
-
- Seeing that the basic GEM interface and TOS has been relative
- unchanged from the original 1985 version, and seeing the operating
- system for the IBM machines evolve to OS/2, what is in store for
- TOS?
-
- I have seen what OS/2 can do, and compared to TOS, it seems to me
- that Atari is being left behind. Real multitasking through the OS,
- not through a program, drag and drop, being able to configure
- almost anything tthe user desires, and being a 32-bit operating
- system.
-
- How does the current TT TOS (3.0??) compare? Is it a 32-bit
- operating system, or is it still tied to a 16-bit path?
-
- What is the fastest Motorola processor?
-
- What about the Motorola 88000? Is it faster, better, compatible?
-
- Or will Atari start to make Intel machines? My feelings is why not.
- There is the ST market and the larger (in the US) IBM market. If
- Dell, Wang, and the others are making (??) money, Atari should be
- in there to capture some of the market. After all, Atari still
- makes the 2600 because there are people STILL buying them, so why
- not havev Atari expand their ABC systems to make the incremental
- sales.
-
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