Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!husc6!linus!raybed2!cvbnet2!jdonsbac From: jdonsbac@cvbnet2.UUCP (Jeff Donsbach, Display & Devices, x4365, 5-2 2415) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEM on Unix Box? Message-ID: <168@cvbnet2.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 17:45:18 GMT References: <8808040927.AA18322@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Sender: postnews@cvbnet2.UUCP Lines: 22 From article <8808040927.AA18322@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, by ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET ("Julian F. Reschke"): > And now for the latest rumour: > > Is it true, that GEM will be ported to the 68030 machine to run as > front end for UNIX. If true, will it be GEM/3? Will there be > multitasking extensions to GEM as a 'Multi-Desk'? > > Mr. Good, any comment? > > Julian F. Reschke That would be a pretty stupid move. No one else in the UNIX world uses GEM for there machines. X11 would be the way to go. But, this is Atari we're talking about isn't it? :-) Jeff ========================== Jeff Donsbach, Computervision Division, PRIME Computer, Inc. (CV' :-) ) UUCP: {decvax | linus | sun}!cvbnet!jdonsbac Internet: jdonsbac@cvbnet.prime.com