[OT] GEM, Blitter, and Atari ST (was: RE: Debian and SqueakL revisited again)
David Harris
dpharris at telus.net
Fri Nov 2 04:35:14 UTC 2001
I've got one too, sitting in front of me - 1040ST and a mono monitor for
it. I played flight simulator on it.
David
Chris Reuter wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:14:41AM -0500, Stephen Pair wrote:
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>>Chris Reuter wrote:
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>>>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.
>>
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>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.
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> --Chris
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