68k/OS is the original operating system (windowing, multitasking) made by GST for the QL.
Throughout the QL finalize, it was replaced by QDOS by Tony Tebby.
68k/OS is public domain now.
Pity, there was only the 32k EPROM image available, not the programs and utilities residing on microdrive capsules (their format is incompatible with QDOS mdv_ cartridge format).
This is the first time, you can download files from the "Utilities" capsule.
Rescued and archived for the digital age.
For description of the utilities, see 68k/OS user manual.
(Pity, I'm not able to read the "Assembler" capsule now. The assembler will be possibly transfered later.)
Exactly.
I hope, as the 68k/OS supports the ROM disk (additional upto 32 kB ROM), in the future we will be able to place the most necessary utilities (format, baud, copy) into ROM.
GST were professionals, and very realistic about what is possible to archieve with just 32 kB of ROM.
Tony Tebby was a bit like crazy maniac - as if he didn't know, that it is impossible to shrink whole operating system and Basic interpreter into such limited space - so he did. (Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.)