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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:24:46 -0700
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On 8/11/24 2:38 PM, internetado wrote:

> Digital Research would also create several other popular and/or
> influential software products beyond CP/M, such as DR DOS and GEM, as
> well as various other DOS variants and CP/M versions with DOS
> compatibility. It would eventually be acquired by Novell, where it
> faded into obscurity.
> 
> https://www.osnews.com/story/140419/50-years-ago-cp-m-started-the-microcomputer-revolution/

Nobody ever mentions GEM!  I used Ventura Publisher under GEM -- an 
expensive and unweildy piece of software which produced excellent 
results once you beat it into submission and never tried to make it do 
anything it really didn't want to do.

I didn't know that GEM was a Kildall thing.  Novell seemed to be as good 
at killing things as Microsoft is at stealing them.

-- 
Cheers, Bev
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