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A GEM Of A Desktop Environment
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Hackaday ☛ A GEM Of A Desktop Environment
Desktop environments are the norm as computer interfaces these days, but there was once a time when they were a futuristic novelty whose mere presence on a computer marked it out as something special. In the early 1980s you could buy an expensive but very fancy Mac from Apple, while on the PC there were early Windows versions, and GEM from Digital Research. It’s something of a footnote here in 2025, and some insight as to why comes from [Programming at the right level] with a retrospective on the software.
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Liam Proven ☛ The more recent history of DR GEM
A tech blogger called Nemanja Trifunovic posted an enjoyable article called the History of the GEM Desktop Environment.It's a nice piece -- it's very good on the early history.
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History of the GEM Desktop Environment
How a gem was cut and then lost