From: MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:09:40 GMT
Message-Id: <199703181409.OAA19982@milly>
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: What good is GEM?

> From owner-opendos-list AT delorie DOT com Tue Mar 18 14:02:43 1997
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 07:28:23 -0600
> From: "Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
> To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
> Subject: What good is GEM?
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> What good, exactly, is GEM?  What apps will it run,

GEM apps, DOS apps.

There was a suite of simple apps, gemdraw, gem paint, etc.
Also, Ventura started life as a gem app before it was ported to windows.

Caldera may use it as the basis for an operating system GUI.

> and otherwise what advantage(s) does it provide?
> 

One of the things GEM is good at is files.  It seems to use low-level FAT file
routines, and this permits it to remove wierd files, with spaces in their names
and so on.

And it can run on an xt.

> Jonathan E. Brickman   River City Computing, Inc.  (913) 232-6663
> http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity     brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
> This is life.  Take it by the whip.
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