To download GEM,
http://www.deltasoft.com
http://deltasoft.fife.wa.us/cpm/archive/unofficial/gemworld.html
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/1184/
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Gem/gengem.html .
I agree, in 1986 I bought GEM and Windows 1.1 (Tandy Version) for my
wife (at that time) to use on our Tandy 1000 based network at our
office. Because the girl couldn't remember a text command for longer
than 2 minutes, it was a lot easier to give her icons to pint and click
than to answer phone calls constantly. Win 1.x was a joke, but GEM
performed flawlessly until 1993 when we retired the old systems and
moved to 486's and Win3.11.
James
Chandra Bajpai wrote:
>
> VisiOn...Wow, haven't thought about that software for a while.
> Anybody ever use it??....I remember it was a pig, requiring lots
> of memory+CPU (8088 _at_ 4.77Mhz weren't going to cut it) and it
> was the first package that required a mouse!
>
> Back in 1985 I did get a chance to evaluate/use Microsoft Windows 1.0 and
> Digital Research GEM (GEM was so much better!) A even better package for
> multitasking was the original QuarterDeck DesQ (they later bastardized
> down to a more popular lite version called DesQView). DesQ multitasked well
> esp. on the original PC architecture.
>
> Any know where I can find disk images for the software mentioned above?
>
> Thanks,
> Chandra
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of David Vohs
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 4:19 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Another tech legend for discussion!
>
> I have another tech legend to be dicussed:
>
> It is generally believed that the Apple Lisa is what spurred Bill Gates to
> create Windows. But recently I have read something that says it was *not*
> the Lisa that inspired Bill Gates, but that it was VisiCorp's VisiOn
> software (remember that, yeah, me neither!). So my question is: Which one
> was it? Was it Lisa or VisiOn?
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