Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 10:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
To: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Graphics Drivers / X
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> I've heard Sun's NeWS is pretty good, but I haven't looked at it myself.
> I guess GEM falls into the OD Specific category.  Also, in my opinion
> GEOS ought to seriously be considered for low end use.  What those
> guys have accomplished with 16-bit code, in ~100K is truly remarkable.
> (It's commercial, though)
> 

Tim, OpenGEM is on the horizon.  Mark and I are going to start work on it
in the next few weeks - we still have quite a bit of prep work to do
before we start breaking things.  There are two versions initially
planned.  The first will be OpenGEM 7.0 which will be GEM/3 v3.11 with the
possible addition of some new drivers.  The second will be OpenGEM/32 1.0. 
The 32 bit version will be a heavy update of GEM as it sits now, including
the possibility of an entirely new desktop look.  Eventually we'll be
adding a pre-emptive core that may or may not be hacked out of the EMM386
sources. 


g.