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Wow, that's a large ROM. Even in their latest, 68030 based models, Atari never shipped a ROM bigger than I think 512kB (in the TT). If you wanted the full mult
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Wow, that's a large ROM. Even in their latest, 68030 based models, Atari never shipped a ROM bigger than I think 512kB (in the TT).
If you wanted the full multitasking modern version of the OS (MultiTOS), you loaded parts of it from disk. Or ran SysV Unix (or NetBSD or Linux, later).
Then again, binary sizes would be smaller on a CISC 68k machine I'd expect.
- Symbiote 3y agoSome of it's shown later in the long video I posted if you want to look, but the ROM includes the multitasking OS, GUI, BASIC interpreter, text editor, graphics editor, vector drawing editor, calculator, clock/alarm clock, font manager and four fonts, network stack (though not IP), RAM filing system, audio support.