On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, David Given wrote:
> [...]
> >Ahem.
> >I know two things.
> >1. It can live on rather small resources in terms RAM and CPU.
>
> True; but porting it to ELKS would require an awful lot of developer
> resources, that we can't spare.
>
> [...]
> >> TSR...) and it's full of arbitrary limits. It also relies on a segmented
> >> architecture a lot.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >2. It runs on MC68000, (atari) that is not segmented at all.
>
> But 68k GEM and PC GEM are fundamentally different beasts. Yes, the
> *applications* can be source-compatible, if you use the horrific set of
> compatability macros provided (and no-one ever does because they are, indeed,
> horrific); but the kernels aren't. At all.
Ok.
I read (for the first time actually) how to program the API on Atari, and
thought it was nice.
I'll look into it myself, and since I'm not the one of the resources
you can't spare, no harm's done? :-)
Regards,
Jakob Eriksson
