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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>
Precedence: bulk
> > 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 :-( >