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 by: KJG KJG - Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:05 UTC

On Friday, 1 April 2022 at 11:19:05 UTC+1, dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
> On 24/03/22 19:30, Francisco Martín wrote:
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> > There was something called "Gem Desktop" a Graphics Environment Manager intended to provide a GUI for the cp/m running over Intel 8088 processors and also for the Motorola 68000 processors. (Yes, it was used by the TOS of the Atari ST computers, and also by the Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640). I saw it running on an Amstrad PC1512.
> > Gem Desktop (of course) was developed by Digital Research Inc.(The Gary Kildall's company).
> > Please, read about that, I'm not lying.
> IIRC, the Amstrad PC1512 run DR's DOS+, derived from CP/M 86 and TOS
> descends from CP/M 68k.
>

SymbOS isn't really a CP/M GUI as much as it is an OS in it's own right (though does support the CP/M filesystems) but it does run a full GUI and even a degree of multitasking on Z80 platforms with 128k (mainly Amstrads and MSX) so it's definitely doable.

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