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Dec 6, 2010

by Y Kant Ozma Post

WebDog posted:


There's a shade of bitter irony as GEM was developed from ideas at PARC, much like Mac Os had been.


Not really. GEM was only started on in mid 84, rushed out early 85. The AES horribly buggy and slapped together - click and drag wouldn't "catch" nine times out of ten, leaving you holding a mouse button down as the computer ignored you. There was no support for other fonts, etc. It was incredibly slow (NVDI is what, 1500% faster for some operations?) and crashed constantly.

It was nothing but an attempt to cash in on the market the mac opened up. Up until that point DRI was more or less happy to sit with their thumbs up their rear end as far as guis were concerned.

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