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Article #621376Re: Old word processors
From: Andy Leighton
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:00
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:00
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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. Mainly because it didn't have the market share to get people to write applications for GEM (and TBH Microsoft had the same issue with Windows 1.0 which in many ways was worse than GEM). I wrote a library so that one of our text-mode oil-industry database application (written in Clipper Autumn 86) could call the Gem VDI (the low level graphics interface), switch to graphics, and plot a map of the pipeline. I remember struggling with one particular VDI call I thought would be useful for days before I gave in and called tech- support only to be told "that function doesn't work and we don't have any plans to fix it soon". -- Andy Leighton => an...@azaal.plus.com "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - Douglas Adams
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