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Article #621374Re: Old word processors
From: Carlos E.R.
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:17
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:17
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On 2018-03-21 11:00, Huge wrote: > On 2018-03-20, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: > > [31 lines snipped] > >>> A shame CP/M was killed of by MS-DOS. Would had been interesting to see >>> what happened to it if not. Especially when the GUIs came out in the mid >>> 80. I know GEM ran on it, but (other than used in an ATARI ST and for >>> UNIX/Linux) it never really took off or was developed further. >> >> 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. > > The Amstrad PC1512 came with GEM (I had one). It could do little more than manage files. I played with it a bit sometimes, then abandoned it. I think it had a drawing program that used the extra high resolution and colour mode of the Amstrad, but that was about it. (it had a CGA-Hi mode in 16 colours, I think it was, instead of B/W) -- Cheers, Carlos.
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