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/> > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe. /
/> > Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity. /
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/> Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows. Cool. (I used Dr. Dos byt never / /> tried its gui.) /Actually I believe GEM predates DR-DOS, and except for being made by the same company I don't think they were ever related.
Eric
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I think I remember that DR-DOS was the name that Caldera gave to the Digital Research OS, previously known as GEMDOS, when then bought the company.
GEMDOS was the official OS under the GEM Gui,
but GEM was also able to run with MS-DOS
and TOS (the Atari OS).
Geoworks / Geos isn't a Digital Research product, but has been developped by guys who ran away from Digital when it has been bought by Novell...
Some guys told me that they worked with Geos
and that it was really closed with the internal
"GEM spirit"....
Regards.
Jocelyn.
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
Yes, and the source actually was open for a short time when Caldera had it, then it snapped back shut like a clam. I wanted to use DrDos for an industrial project because of less paranoid licensing than MS-Dos, but after being rebuffed in no uncertain terms when I offered to fix a bug I ran away shuddering and jumped on the Linux cluetrain.
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I think I remember that DR-DOS was the name that Caldera gave to the Digital Research OS, previously known as GEMDOS,
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
Yes, and the source actually was open for a short time when Caldera had it, then it snapped back shut like a clam. I wanted to use DrDos for an industrial project because of less paranoid licensing than MS-Dos, but after being rebuffed in no uncertain terms when I offered to fix a bug I ran away shuddering and jumped on the Linux cluetrain.
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I think I remember that DR-DOS was the name that Caldera gave to the Digital Research OS, previously known as GEMDOS,
After Ransom Love fell for Microsoft's "Stop using the GPL so we can fork your stuff and make a proprietary version" campaign... That pretty much buried the needle on my "cluelessness" meter. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing Caldera could still do that would suprise me would be to come to their senses.
Rob