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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- From: apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled)
- Subject: Re: Gem Support Dieing?
- Reply-To: apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 01:25:58 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.578043@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- In article <4226@wet.UUCP>, ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen) writes:
- >as I know. I haven't seen GEM on a PC, but I would highly suspect that GEM,
- >TOS 2.06, and even Multi-TOS (on the ST) look and feel completely different
- >than the PC version of GEM.
- >
- >--
- > ||| Ed Krimen
- > ||| ekrimen@wet.com
- > / | \ E.KRIMEN (GEnie)
- >
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- GEM on the PC was severely crippled due to some law suit with Apple. Like
- windows can't be sized etc.. How Atari got round this one i don't know.
- All the GUIs around today owe alot to Apple even if they don't admit it.
- How comes the recoverable trashcan thingy in Neo got by the board for that
- matter ? i'm fairly sure this was copyright Apple.
-
- Adam.
-