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to: Bill Lucy
from: Adam Flinton
date: 1995-12-07 20:55:30
subject: Re: History of the PC industry

From: "Adam Flinton" 

I can't remember what I used but it ran Gem first & then you started it
(or indeed other things).


Adam

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.185b3f3c7b593f4998b13f{at}news.barkto.com...
> Out of darkness, Geo. says...
> > What made windows a hit was the single driver model and app vendors like
> > Ventura and PageMaker supplying runtime windows so they could do WYSIWYG
> > page layout programs and have them work with lots of hardware. Nobody
cared
> > about a GUI, they just got tired of hunting down a printer and video
driver
> > for every app they used.
>
> IIRC, Ventura ran under something other than Windows at the time. The GUI
from DR,
> I think.

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