Re: SV: herc microwin support

1999-07-18 Thread Alan Cox
The source code for GEM desktop is AVAILABLE?! I've always wanted it! Where!!?!?! Caldera released it , CP/M and some other oddments from the DR-DOS pile under a no commercial use license. CP/M is elegant code. CP/M 68K is really nice. GEM is just plain ick

SV: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Thor Harald Johansen
: I had a friend who used a DOS based graphical desktop publishing program : on his 8088 with a hercules graphics card, 640KB of RAM, and a 20MB hard : disk, and it was snappier than MS Word on a Pentium. Let me guess. It was for GEM desktop! ;) -- Thor`n

Re: SV: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Alex Holden
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote: : I had a friend who used a DOS based graphical desktop publishing program : on his 8088 with a hercules graphics card, 640KB of RAM, and a 20MB hard : disk, and it was snappier than MS Word on a Pentium. Let me guess. It was for GEM

SV: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Thor Harald Johansen
GEM's the only thing that I can remember that pushed pixels in those early days on herc You know, GEM's src is available, but I've heard its **ugly**. That's why I went with the nano-X group. Cause it's source is semi-beautiful! The source code for GEM desktop is AVAILABLE?! I've