5 Apr
2002
5 Apr
'02
3:55 p.m.
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:36:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Subject: Re: GEM OS was: CP/M and Imsai
In Geos the whole OS was coded in 6502 assembler. Couldn't make an 8bit gui work with
slowpokes like C.
GEM and TOS (as I understand) were partly host assembler (8088 or 68000) and part c. No
commonality
under the hood at all.
I've asked this before, but how close is the
Commodore GEOS to the Gem
one ? The desktop at least is virtually identical.
I don't think it is, myself. Berkeley Softworks supposedly modeled it on the
Macintosh.
Does it have an underlying
system greatly different from TOS and AES(?) ?
Not knowing much about the internals of TOS ...