Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

On 8/11/24 2:38 PM, internetado wrote:

Digital Research would also create several other popular and/or
influential software products beyond CP/M, such as DR DOS and GEM, as
well as various other DOS variants and CP/M versions with DOS
compatibility. It would eventually be acquired by Novell, where it
faded into obscurity.
 https://www.osnews.com/story/140419/50-years-ago-cp-m-started-the-microcomputer-revolution/

Nobody ever mentions GEM!  I used Ventura Publisher under GEM -- an expensive and unweildy piece of software which produced excellent results once you beat it into submission and never tried to make it do anything it really didn't want to do.
I didn't know that GEM was a Kildall thing.  Novell seemed to be as good at killing things as Microsoft is at stealing them.
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