[OT] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:20:40AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Sunday 24 June 2001 12:36, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe.
> > > Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity.
> >
> > Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows.  Cool.  (I used Dr. Dos byt
> > never tried its gui.)
> 
> GEM had its moment of glory when Xerox used it for the gui of Ventura 
> Publisher.

GEM (a slight variation) was also providing GUI on Atari ST.  At that
time it was heavily beating pants off from anything M$ was able to
cobble together on nominally much faster machines.

   Michal