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Jack wanted a new computer, and fast. A lot of his loyalists from Commodore had left to follow him, so a combination of Atari and ex-Commodore engineers started working frantically to get something ready for the Winter Consumer Electronics Show coming up in January '85. The Motorola 68000 was chosen to be the UsefulNotes/{{C|entralProcessingUnit}}PU. UsefulNotes/{{R|andomAccessMemory}}AM started at 128K, but was 512K by the time the computer was done. A custom MediaNotes/{{G|raphicsProcessingUnit}}PU called Shifter allowed three screen modes. Sound would be the General Instrument AY-3-8912. The operating system was to be a port of Digital Research's CP/M, but it proved too primitive and was replaced by a new OS that DR was developing, called GEMDOS. A graphical user interface on top of GEMDOS completed the OS, called TOS ("Total Operating System", or "Tramiel Operating System", but usually just "The Operating System"). Since Jack's computer had similar features to the Platform/AppleMacintosh but sold at a far lower price, it was nicknamed the "Jackintosh" by the press. On later systems, TOS evolved into [=MultiTOS=], a multitasking Platform/{{UNIX}}-like operating system, an early example of a commercialized open source project as it was derived from the [=MiNT=] project.
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Jack wanted a new computer, and fast. A lot of his loyalists from Commodore had left to follow him, so a combination of Atari and ex-Commodore engineers started working frantically to get something ready for the Winter Consumer Electronics Show coming up in January '85. The Motorola 68000 was chosen to be the UsefulNotes/{{C|entralProcessingUnit}}PU. UsefulNotes/{{R|andomAccessMemory}}AM MediaNotes/{{R|andomAccessMemory}}AM started at 128K, but was 512K by the time the computer was done. A custom MediaNotes/{{G|raphicsProcessingUnit}}PU called Shifter allowed three screen modes. Sound would be the General Instrument AY-3-8912. The operating system was to be a port of Digital Research's CP/M, but it proved too primitive and was replaced by a new OS that DR was developing, called GEMDOS. A graphical user interface on top of GEMDOS completed the OS, called TOS ("Total Operating System", or "Tramiel Operating System", but usually just "The Operating System"). Since Jack's computer had similar features to the Platform/AppleMacintosh but sold at a far lower price, it was nicknamed the "Jackintosh" by the press. On later systems, TOS evolved into [=MultiTOS=], a multitasking Platform/{{UNIX}}-like operating system, an early example of a commercialized open source project as it was derived from the [=MiNT=] project.
