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I meant to add this link: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/08/102738269-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resourc
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
I meant to add this link:
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/08/102738269-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
CHM "Oral History of Lee Lorenzen"
There's quite a few pages there about GEM and its history.
"VisiCorp was working on the operating environment Visi On, which was going to be their answer
to a graphical user interface. When I went and saw it, I said, "Oh, we could do better." We had
an Apple Lisa, and it was a 68K-based system. That was awesome that they had that at Digital
Research. I said, "Let's take concurrent CP/M." They had a 68K version running on the Lisa, but
they didn't have any user interface. So, I said, "Let me do the user interface for it." I don't think I
used the same code, but I basically redid everything to create something called Crystal, which
was the Lone Star type thing, but running on this Lisa hardware. It had a mouse, and it had a
bitmapped display, but it ran on CP/M 68"