From: Spiro Trikaliotis (Trik-news_at_gmx.de)
Date: 2001-10-17 16:15:25
Hello René, "René de Bie" <Rene_at_the-underground.myweb.nl> wrote: > > That's exactly the difference between the CBM floppies and > > other floppies [...] > Hi I don't agree, because the Atari 8-bit drives have also there own 650x > processor with RAM and ROM. When you have a speedy or Happy upgrade (floppy Thanks your this clarification, I did not know this! I always thought Atari drives were as dumb as Apple drives (which are just the drive itself, nothing more). > The Atari drives have no DOS, and this had brought us some nice DOS programs > like SpartaDOS (msdos like) with an other way of reading/writing disks then Hm... MS-DOS like? Well... But MS-DOS (despite of its name) is *not* a DOS in the sense I would see it in this context. The DOS 2.6 of the 1541 for example is a firmware that runs the floppy (*only* the floppy part). It's quite limited and does not offer very much entry points like a "real" OS should do. MS-DOS, on the other side, is a "full-featured" OS *LOL* (like the CBM's Kernel, for example) which did not even need to have a disk drive (at least the MS-DOS 1.xx versions worked even with the tape drive of the IBM PC). BTW, do you know that COMMAND.COM (the DOS shell) is just *one* possible type of shell? I think with MS-DOS style you meant the shell which I would not see as part of the core OS. In fact, if you tell me that SpartaDOS is MS-DOS like, I would think about something having similar interfaces for programs as MS-DOS has - and I doubt that SpartaDOS did this, did it? Spiro. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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