From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:38:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:38:41 -0400 Received: from edtn006530.hs.telusplanet.net ([161.184.137.180]:56841 "EHLO mail.harddata.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:38:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:38:23 -0600 From: Michal Jaegermann To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Re: Microsoft and Xenix. Message-ID: <20010624213823.A7205@mail.harddata.com> In-Reply-To: <01062406364601.01519@localhost.localdomain> <0106250020400D.00430@starship> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0106250020400D.00430@starship>; from phillips@bonn-fries.net on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:20:40AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:20:40AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Sunday 24 June 2001 12:36, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe. > > > Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity. > > > > Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows. Cool. (I used Dr. Dos byt > > never tried its gui.) > > GEM had its moment of glory when Xerox used it for the gui of Ventura > Publisher. GEM (a slight variation) was also providing GUI on Atari ST. At that time it was heavily beating pants off from anything M$ was able to cobble together on nominally much faster machines. Michal