From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 20 15:08:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20478 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20473 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip214.konnections.com [192.41.71.214]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id QAA00221; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:07:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335BF1E3.208BEE4B@konnections.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 16:01:55 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters CC: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) References: <335A4537.7AC6599C@konnections.com> <3933.861467275@time.cdrom.com> <199704201921.NAA07907@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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