Wayne%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Wayne McGuire) (09/13/86)
Does anyone have any hard information or informed speculations about the future of GEM? Specifically, is there a multitasking GEM in the works which will fully exploit the resources of 68020 machines? I am sure most of us would love to see many of the best features of the windowing and operating systems of Symbolics, Sun, Apollo, MicroVAX, and Xerox 6085 workstations integrated into a GEM or GEMlike interface on the next generation of Atari machines. Also, will it be possible to run Windows with the new IBM PC emulator for the Atari, and, if so, might not Windows and eventually MS-DOS 5.0 become the operating system of choice for Atari users and programmers?
turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (09/17/86)
> Does anyone have any hard information or informed speculations about the > future of GEM? Specifically, is there a multitasking GEM in the works which > will fully exploit the resources of 68020 machines? I am sure most of us *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** i doubt it severly, what is more likely is a port of system V with a windowing system on top of it, there is a company that sells a multi-processing OS for the ST but with no memory protection and thats kinda like driving without a seatbelt. -- ---- It aint life that gets me down, it's gravity Name: James M. Turner Mail: Imagen Corp. 2650 San Tomas Expressway, P.O. Box 58101 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101 AT&T: (408) 986-9400 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!turner CompuServe: 76327,1575 GEnie : D-ARCANGEL