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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 1997 16:01:55 -0700
From:      mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>
To:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...)
Message-ID:  <335BF1E3.208BEE4B@konnections.com>
References:  <335A4537.7AC6599C@konnections.com> <3933.861467275@time.cdrom.com> <199704201921.NAA07907@obie.softweyr.ml.org>

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DR never moved it to UNIX, but they did build a multitasking windowing
environment out of it.  For at least 3 platforms, I recall....

Windows washed them overboard, though.....

-Mike

Wes Peters wrote:
> 
>  > > quite a few projects.  Remember GEM?  Anyone seen the Original GEM (Ver
>  >
>  > Yeah, I do.  It wasn't half bad, which is why I figured it died. :-)
>  > "BETAmaxed"
> 
> Me too.  I was looking for my hardcopies of the "ST Professional GEM"
> series of columns just this week.  I was attempting to convince a couple
> of the Windows Weenies at work that their user interface was confusing
> because they didn't understand the psychology of people sitting in front
> of computers and needed one of the "religion" articles to look up some
> reference material.
> 
> That was a nice user interface system, for its day.  Too bad DR never
> moved it to UNIX.  ;^)
> 
> --
>           "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
> 
> Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
> http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com



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