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From: Kerr-MuddJohn
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:01

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:13:48 GMT, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net>
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.

Before Desqview conquered the world.
I was OK with DOS's "Shell"
-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

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