On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:14:41AM -0500, Stephen Pair wrote:
> Chris Reuter wrote:
> > GEM was released under the GPL when Caldera 
> > bought Digital Research.  The Watcom C compiler is due to be 
> > released as open-source software as well, although the 
> > current maintainers are still trying to remove 
> > third-party-licensed code.
> 
> Now that's a blast from the past.  The Atari ST (running GEM) was the
> computer on which I learned GUIs and event driven C programming  (with
> the Mark Williams C compiler) when I was a kid. 

I still have mine.  It's sitting in front of me right now, turned off
and convered with a thin layer of dust Periodically, I think about
porting Squeak to it.  I suspect it wouldn't run very fast, though.


                              --Chris