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- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 94 01:20 BST-1
- From: hoagy@cix.compulink.co.uk (David Stevenson)
- Subject: Re: MTOS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.817992@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- > > Unless Atari release AES 4.1 to the public and continue development, MTOS
- > >...
- >The main problem is that it still uses the bios routines for disc access, which
- >are blocking. There is a driver for the falcon's SCSI interface, and someone
- MultiTOS *IS* important. Not so much from the point-of-view that we should
- actually use it, but it defines a base standard API. Any current or future
- "Atari-compatible" OSes need to be MTOS/AES4.1 compatible.
-
- What we need (imo) from a developers p-o-v is to start from the latest
- MTOS API spec and go from there. And trust that someone will produce a
- better implementation of that spec.
-
- Our new proposals should be "xyz + MTOS/AES4.1", not "xyz+something else"
-
- (apologies if this mail gets wrongly routed, I use CixComm/CixRead, and
- they don't understand Reply-To:)
- <Note: It did go wrong, so this is a re-send :-( >
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