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Article #621366Re: Old word processors
From: Questor
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:18
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:18
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:13:48 -0400, 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. Incorrect. Windows 9x/ME were *not* graphical shells running on MS-DOS. They were complete operating systems.
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