Re: Lisa GEMDOS

This is an interesting picture...Gary Kildall (founder of Digital Research) with a Lisa on his front porch. Maybe he's working on gemdos???

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/images/t_kildall.jpg

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:27 AM, gilles <gilles.fetis_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, the CP-M/68k is readily available, in fact there was a port of
>> it the VAX called (obviously) CP-M/VAX.  I think the same may be true
>> for GEM.  If someone really wanted to, they could compile it for the
>> Lisa I suppose, I can **try** and see what comes up
>
> I'm still exploring... most gem programs in the archives runs on stock
> atari ST.
> I could build a boot floppy that is supposed to be for lisa but. The
> tools are second generation
> tools, it means that you need a working lisa GEMdos to build a new
> one. The main problem
> is that when you run on atari, you create discs using atari GEMdos so
> in final atari disc geometry (ie mostly msdos).
> also such discs don't have the tags (only 0xAAAA type tag of first
> sector may be necessary to boot).
> To make boot disc for lisa we need to:
> _ define correct gemdos lisa disc geometry.
> _ create a disc image with this geometry and gemdos lisa binary (that
> seems to be present in the archive).
>
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