Re: Old word processors

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:45

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 05:00:20 -0500, Andy Leighton wrote:
>
> 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:
> 
>>> [31 lines snipped]

Did you count it? ;-)

>>> 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".

Do you still have it? Not that I am particularly interested. But things
like that should be archived to be preserved.
-- 
Andreas

My random toughts and comments
https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/

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