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Re: Errors in a Microsoft Propaganda Book



In article <jpgm23p8i9nl4l30k21ioph6tj5r6b3ih1@4ax.com>,
rob  <rob@spamoff.net> wrote:

> What about Digital Research's GEM which was demoed in 1983 ?  That was
> a spinoff of the Xerox PARC project.  It was quite popular on some PC
> and Atari machines (Notably the ST).

DR's GEM on an XT was the first GUI I ever saw, except a brief peek at
an Apple Lisa some years earlier.  Of course at that time GEM was as
useless as Lisa, but both were prototypes of what was going to come
later.

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