From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:13:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:13:20 -0400 Received: from ns2.cypress.com ([157.95.67.5]:662 "EHLO ns2.cypress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:12:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3B9D95.655F6C08@cypress.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:11:49 -0500 From: Thomas Dodd Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Southeast Design Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en-US, en-GB, en, de-DE, de-AT, de-CH, de, zh-TW, zh-CN, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kai Henningsen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, penguicon-comphist@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix. In-Reply-To: <01062310075401.00696@localhost.localdomain> <83WVxfbXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kai Henningsen wrote: > No. GEM, I believe, originally came from CP/M. Most popular as the > windowing system of the Atari ST; given that someone did a quick-hack MS- > DOS clone to support it on the 68K, it seems fairly obvious that by that > time, it had already been ported to MS-DOS. (GEM-DOS is the only os I know > of that was actually worse than MS-DOS.) And ATARI goofed by not including more than GEM in the ST(e). Should have used the whole system like the TT and Falcon did. > Friends of mine (Gereon Steffens and Stefan Eissing) wrote a command-line If you see them, tell them an old STe user thanks them for there work. Without them I might never have headed to Unix :) Vielen Dank Herren. > shell and desktop replacement for the Atari that was fairly successful > shareware for a while ... now how was it called? The CLI was Mupfel > (German for shell is Muschel, and there was a kid's TV character who > pronounced Muschel as Mupfel), and I think the desktop was Gemini. Another I still have Gemini on a Disk for my STe. The SCSI adaptor died, so I don't know if the data is still good though. Then I tried the Minix port MinT (Mint is not TOS :) and was hooked on Unix. If I could get my SCSI adaptor fixed/replaced I'd still have my STe running, maybe even get a memory card (for > 4Meg) and a CPU upgrade (68000 is slow, get 68030 or 40 like the Falcon) Then I could run Linux on it (it need that math co-proc) -Thomas