[Coco] [OT] Commodore 64 slow floppy

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 22 January 2014 16:12:46 Al Hartman did opine:

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

And where do I find such verification on my ST-E the next time I drag it 
out & putz around getting the ST-225 HD started before the OS times out and 
gives up?  That is usually 20+ resets & some light hammering on the drive 
case to break the stiction loose.
 
> 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


Cheers, Gene
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