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Article #621375Re: Old word processors
From: J. Clarke
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:41
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:41
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:17:39 +0100, "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: >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) The annoying thing about GEM was that it wasn't really standardized. If you got Ventura Publisher you got a version of GEM that didn't work with any other software written for GEM and if you had a boxed copy of GEM it wouldn't run Ventura.
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