![]() ![]() Lee Lorenzen (at Graphic Software Systems, Inc.) who had recently left Xerox PARC (the birthplace of the feckin' modern GUI) wrote much of the oul' code. In late 1984, GEM started life at DRI as an outgrowth of a feckin' more general-purpose graphics library known as GSX (Graphics System Extension), written by a feckin' team led by Don Heiskell since about 1982. DRI also produced X/GEM for their FlexOS real-time operatin' system with adaptations for OS/2 Presentation Manager and the X Window System under preparation as well. It was ported to a holy number of other computers that previously lacked graphical interfaces, but never gained popularity on those platforms. It was the oul' core for a feckin' small number of DOS programs, the most notable bein' Ventura Publisher. ![]() It was also available for the oul' standard IBM PC, at a time when the feckin' 6 MHz IBM PC AT (and the oul' very concept of a holy GUI) was brand new, the ![]() GEM is known primarily as the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Atari ST series of computers, and was also supplied with a feckin' series of IBM PC-compatible computers from Amstrad, for the craic. GEM (for Graphics Environment Manager ) is an operatin' environment which was created by Digital Research (DRI) since 1984 for use with the bleedin' DOS operatin' system on Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors. ![]()
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