On 02/12/13 20:55, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Kostas Michalopoulos schrieb: >> Actually, Microsoft has nothing to do with GEM, it was made by >> Digital Research. > > Right, but it was the first desktop presented by Microsoft. > >> Also technically GEM is/was very different from Windows (GEM relies >> on interrupts and can run only a single program while Windows was >> multitasking from the start, > > I'm not sure what GEM has to do with multitasking.
That history has gone full-circle, and the NEW DESKTOP APPS (for Windows 8 Metro) are predominantly full screen... And the [GEM/DR/?] idea of menus on top of screen also makes a come back in Ubuntu... and IIRC Gnome3. [...] > > DoDi > -L. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
