> On Oct 6, 2022, at 9:47 AM, Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's quite different from systems like Commodore etc. where BASIC does indeed > supply the main interface and control.
Hah, I was just about to comment on some of the Commodore operating environments by way of comparison! The T offers an equivalent of a CP/M BIOS or Commodore KERNAL in the ROM. It offers a command interpreter suitable for file operations and program launching, much like CP/M's command shell, though far more programmable in many ways; it also includes a great menu driven launcher and file browser. The most popular of the Commodore environments -- that of the C64 -- had quite a bit less capability in terms of file management without significant extension although several earlier and later Commodore ROMs included such capabilities. To top it off, much like CP/M and other things that meet the traditional definition of an operating system, several good utilities are included with the T's operating environment, like TEXT, TELCOM, and the mini-databases. I won't define it for others but such a package meets my own definition of an operating system better than some of the other operating systems I've used.
