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

[Joel Ewy]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 25 December 2009, Joel Ewy wrote:
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>> Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> ...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.
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>> 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.
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> I was under the impression that Jack Tramiel(sp?) wrote that dos cuz they 
> called it Tramieldos or something similar.
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That may be.  I'm almost certain DR did the GEM GUI, but maybe Atari 
wrote the rest...  I know that the floppy disk format is very similar to 
a DOS FAT.

JCE

>> JCE
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>>>   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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