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GEM was still so superior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager If ever there
by points 16y ago
GEM was still so superior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager
If ever there was a good lesson it's this - DRDos was lighyears ahead, and far superior to MSDos. GEM was ridiculously more advanced than Windows, yet they lost. Having the better product doesn't always translate to winning.
Of course things like this helped MS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
(MS put some code in place to detect DR-DOS and make things not work properly).
"Microsoft Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg later sent another memo, stating: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS."
It'd be great to see a movie made of this period of time when MS were engaging in so many dirty tricks.
- JonnieCache 16y agoI cut my teeth on GEM at age 6 or 7. It was awesome. We had the later version that ran on top of DOS on an Amstrad machine of all things. Got brought home from work by my dad when it has been long obsolete.
- rbanffy 16y ago> Having the better product doesn't always translate to winning. As the DoJ proved so aptly, it's the least ethical salesforce that wins. DR-DOS and GEM was sold to end users. MS-DOS and, later, Windows, was sold to OEMs in the form of the Microsoft tax, sucking out any opportunity for competitors. > It'd be great to see a movie made of this period of time when MS were engaging in so many dirty tricks. It would take a five-season series for that...
- drtse4 16y ago100% agree, i still have my x86 GEM's 5 1/4" floppies somewhere (with the additional painting and writing apps, i guess it was an "ultimate" edition). Another interesting thing is that the GEM release i had already contained a basic interpreter with windowed graphics support (not complete as visual basic that was released in 1991). EDIT: Looks like i had GEM2, the "lawsuit friendly" version. DRI had been sued by Apple for similarities between the MacOs of Lisa and GEM, they removed some features like overlapping windows on the desktop and a few animation effects.
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