operating systems

From: Scott Walde <scott_at_saskatoon.com>
Date: Thu Jan 1 14:50:22 1998

On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>>Regarding interesting OS's that run on XT's:
>
>If you're talking about the GEM I think you're talking about. Wasn't it
>licensed from Digital Research? GEM is also the basis for the 16 & 32-bit
>Atari's. I just can't remember at this point if the PC version ran on DOS,
>or if it required CP/M to run.

The GEM I have runs on DOS. (I also have a copy of GEM for the Tandy2000,
but my T2000 doesn't have enough RAM to run it.) Yes, it was Digital
Research.

Back in my Desktop Publishing days, I ran Ventura Publisher under runtime
GEM on top of DOS. I also seriously looked at GEMDraw, but rather picked
a new drawing package that ran on Windows 2.11 called CorelDraw :-)
Little did I know that years later Corel would buy Ventura Publisher.

ttyl
srw
Received on Thu Jan 01 1998 - 14:50:22 GMT