[Lazarus] The future of desktop

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Kostas Michalopoulos schrieb:
> Actually, Microsoft has nothing to do with GEM, it was made by Digital
> Research.

Right, but it was the first desktop presented by Microsoft.

> Also technically GEM is/was very different from Windows (GEM
> relies on interrupts and can run only a single program while Windows
> was multitasking from the start,

I'm not sure what GEM has to do with multitasking.

> GEM apps can be made by any DOS
> compiler that can issue interrupts and has the necessary header files,
> Windows apps require special compilers, etc).

I don't see a need for an special Windows compiler. The only requirement 
is a linker that links the resources into the executable. This was a 
separate program for a long time, in addition to the compiler and linker.

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