Re: [steem] Classic Video Games Make a Comeback, Thanks Mike
- From: "Yoko Yamaki" <yoko_yamaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 25 Jun 2004 20:48:45 +0200
Hello,
what about this story then that Billie had 'stolen' lots of code for windos
from mac intosh 'gem'? if i remember well, pc gem was limited to 2 windows
and no trash can after apple had sued the makers of pc-gem.
YY
> Lance, your message says Atari had the Windows environment "many many years
> before" and that Bill Gates "stole" the Windows idea and put it on the PC.
>
>
> The release of the PC version of Windows was delayed, for a wide variety of
> reasons, so it didn't actually hit the market until after the Atari ST was
> on sale. But it was in development LONG before the Atari ST existed in any
> form.
>
> I guess you're not aware that the Tramiels negotiated with Microsoft to put
> WINDOWS on the Atari ST computer *before* they spoke to Digital Research
> (DRI) about GEM. They ended up going with GEM in large part because DRI
> also had CPM68K already running on the 68000 processor, and Atari still
> needed a DOS. Microsoft had nothing similar to offer for the 68000
> processor, and despite how they might have felt about GEM versus Windows,
> Atari wouldn't have been able to get the machine to market on schedule if
> they had to write their own DOS from scratch. So they went with DRI.
>
>
>
> Mike Fulton
> (Former Atari employee)
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