[Gllug] Bill Gates To Leave Microsoft

[Peter Childs]

On 19/06/06, John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:55:37 +0200 salsaman <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> > Digital Equipment Corporation (otherwise known as DEC) also had the
> > GEM graphics system for the PC before Microsoft came out with
> > Windows. I remember using it in about 1986.
> >
>
> I thought GEM predated the PC. I do remember that Digital's PCs were
> majorly overpriced.

Yes GEM, The Atari ST ran GEM on top of TOS which was all on the ROM
chip quite unlike the situation today.

Peter

>
> But a memory keeps popping into my head that Bill Gates nearly shut
> down the Windows project before they brought out version 3.1. Am I
> remembering correctly or is this just the first signs of senility?
>
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>  John
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