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chasil 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A Short History of CP/M-86

My major experience with GEM was Xerox Ventura Publisher.

Ventura and Aldus Pagemaker were the two desktop publishing contenders on the PC. Pagemaker used Windows. Ventura ended up going to Windows as well (no surprise there).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura

rbanffy 10 months ago [–]

Notably, back then you couldn't get GEM on a PC without it being bundled with another program.

cmrdporcupine 10 months ago | [–]

Atari shipped a PC clone that came with GEM + GEM Desktop

rbanffy 10 months ago | | [–]

But that was the 2-window GEM desktop, right?

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