Re: [NTLK] Microsoft Tablet PC's designer

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 10:22:58 EST


Jon Glass wrote:
> Interestingly enough, there were a couple other GUIs out at about this time
> that also had such features, but Apple didn't sue them. Anybody remember the
> GEM desktop or the GEOShell (or something like that)? Both of these
> duplicated the look and feel of the Mac pretty closely, including windows
> with folder icons, a single menubar, overlapping windows, etc. The GEO even
> had scalable fonts like True Type, and genuine overlapping windows, i.e.
> windows from multiple apps overlapping each other in one, seamless desktop.

Completely off-topic, yes, I do! I used to have a really old desktop
publishing package, Logitech Finesse (yes, Logitech, the mouse people) that
used a run-time copy of GEM for graphics. And I tried a copy of GeoWorks on
my 10MHz XT for a while.

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