GEM-OS

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Sun Apr 7 08:02:53 2002

 I love it ! Still giggling. This puts various things into perspective including the
Amiga legend. Even the Hasbro sale and Atari demise is related to the
precarious monetory origins of the Tramiel fortune. One would have thought
he came out of the Commodore thing fairly flush

Lawrence

> Here's an interesting history tidbit... the Tramiels were so strapped for
> cash when they took over Atari, that in order to pay DRI for the work on GEM 68K
> for the ST computers.... they paid DRI with the VAX 11/750 located in the Atari
> Grass Valley R&D lab which was closed shortly after. I spoke with Ron Milner,
> one of the original Atari engineers and he explained how one day Gary Kildall
> and crew were in the R&D computer room disconnecting the Vax and was explained
> that it was their "payment" for developing a new OS for the Tramiels.
>
>
> Curt
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lawrence Walker" <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: GEM-OS
>
>
> > They had a common origin in GEM 1.2. The ST GEM ran on top of TOS.
> > The guy who wrote it for DRI (Lee Lorenzen) was one of the Xerox Parc
> > people who really developed the GUI as well as mouse usage. Jobs
> > glommed his Mac ideas as well as numerous coders from Parc and then
> > sued DRI for copying the Mac. He won and DRI was forced to cripple later
> > versions and never marketed it very seriously even tho it preceded
> Windows.
> > For some reason Apple didn't go after the ST or Ventura Publisher which
> > used GEM. Lorenzen was one of the founders of Ventura.
> >
> > Lawrence
> >
> > > And thusly Curt Vendel spake:
> > > >
> > > > Don't forget Diamond which is a GEM TOS "look-alike" version designed
> for the
> > > > Atari 8bits which original came on disk and then came on Super
> Cartridge
> > > > format. Designed by Reevesoft.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Does the GEM TOS have any relationship to the GEM OS that was available
> > > for the PC? (Other then name)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Bryan
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > lgwalker_at_mts.net
> > bigwalk_ca_at_yahoo.com
>


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Received on Sun Apr 07 2002 - 08:02:53 BST