[Coco] OT: Atari ST Firmware (Was: Re: DriveWire printing options)

[Joel Ewy]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> ...
> Maybe I'm the oddball here ... but when the 
> coco got too small, and I was being exposed to the amiga... it was natural to buy myself one.

I got a used Amiga 1000 around '91 or '92 and used it alongside the CoCo 
3 for a few years.  Got the MM/1 in '94 I think but cheap PC hardware 
kept falling into my hands by that time as well.  I did play with DOS 
and Windows, but had even more fun getting SLS Linux to run on a 
'386/SX-40 with 16M of RAM, an 8-bit Paradise VGA board, and a couple 
Seagate 40M drives -- one formatted to 32M after I dug the broken-off 
R/W head out of it under something less than clean-room conditions.

> ...So the only M$ authored software here is 
> whatever may be in the roms of my coco's (several) or, slim chance at best, 
> in the roms of an atari ST I fumbled into possession of at a cocofest (one of 
> Ron's up in PA) quite a few years ago.

I believe that the Atari ROMs were done by Digital Research.  So the 
Atari's TOS is inspired by Digital Research's clone (DR-DOS) of 
Microsoft's workalike (MS-DOS) of Digital Research's CP/M.  Or something 
like that.

JCE

>   In fact I have a certain pride in not 
> having any working winderz installs on the property. :) And I intend to keep 
> it that way.
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