From: lecoat@atari.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Chris Ridd writes:   
   > Darklord wrote:   
   >> I watched this from a link on Facebook - pretty interesting stuff!   
   >>   
   >> Loved the way that TOS desktop was using DRI GEM PC icons and sort of   
   >> resembled a Mac (Lisa?). Coolness.  :)   
   >    
   > It looks quite like    
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)#/media   
   File:Gem_11_Desktop.png    
      
   The Graphic Environment Manager (GEM) from Digital Research existed both   
   for ATARI ST and IBM/PC (or AmstradPC, or whateverPC) written mainly in   
   "C" language, portable, and almost free software now. It could be ported   
   on the ATARI VCS (a computer from ATARI S.A.!) so that ported ATARI 68k   
   software (written in "C", cross-compiled, like mine) could run with it,   
   eventually with the usage of a virtual machine in a first period, like   
   ARAnyM. That's how Apple have done with the Mac, transitioning 68k ->   
   PPC -> Intel -> ARM. Transitioning from Apple, was simple to users and   
   developers, ask them! I've lived it using all different Apple computers.   
      
   That could be the rebirth of ATARI computers, forty years after ST =)   
   I'm not kidding! Do you know GEM, ATARI VCS, "C" language, ARAnyM, Mac?   
      
   I hope that it makes sense...   
      
   Best regards,   
      
   --    
   François LE COAT   
   Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)   
   https://eureka.atari.org/   
      
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