Re: Old word processors

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:13

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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.
-- 
Andreas

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