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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:11

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:42:31 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>
> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:34:53 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>
>> 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. (my "distaste"
> for microsoft came later).

Unfortunately users use when they are equipped with. Windows was the
"choice" then instead of the probably superior GEM.
-- 
Andreas

My random toughts and comments
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