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Article #621351Re: Old word processors
From: Carlos E.R.
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:12
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:12
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On 2018-03-21 22:13, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:21 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >> >> Gareth's Downstairs Computer >> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>>> GEM ran on PC/MS DOS, too. At the time I thought it was a better bet than >>>> windows, probably because of smaller resource requirements. (my "distaste" >>>> for microsoft came later). >>>> >>> >>> 1987 I had the Amstrad PC1512 (2 off 5" floppies" ) which came with the >>> choice of PCDOS or GEM operating systems >> >> I don't think GEM was an OS. It was move of a graphical shell. > > It was. But neither were Windows desktops before Windows 2000/NT. Windows > 9x/ME were just a graphical shell running on MS-DOS. No need to blame GEM > here. No, even windows 3 was more than a graphical shell. Call it incomplete, faulty, whatever. But certainly more than a graphical shell. It replaced many if not most of the bios and dos calls with its own code, for instance. -- Cheers, Carlos.
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