[GEM Development] More about GEM not going forward... More comments?

[Michael Bernstein]

Hi José,

> After Michael's message, I'm somewhat confused about the GEMWiki.

Maybe there is a missunderstandung. I did not talk about a complete
GEMWiki. I only point to the fact, that a GEM API reference is still
available. A document can be created with very little effort and much
faster than let people write a complete reference in a GEMWiki.

> But I have several ideas: making some (very) old PCs useful again,

I remember a old discussion about a possible way to extend PC-GEM and
which was a low level PC. Are there realy still some XTs present which
you want to use again? Or mean old PC a small Pentium? Nobody wants
older PCs. So this is also more or less a toy or museum.

> programming practice,

Yes, nice idea. Because GEM is much smaller than windows, it is much
more easy to understand. Someone could take a look at the basics of
a GUI without the overhead of bid class librarys. Line Minix which
was a small system, easy to understand the basics.

> and a "historic work" of preservation (apart from being a toy, etc.).

For this my words are right, PC-GEM is finished ;-)

> I don't think GEM should evolve into multitasking, higher resolutions or
> other "modern" things... running with 640Kb is a "feature", not a problem,

Yes, but a feature nobody really needs at this days.

You have nice ideas, But i think, it will never be much more than a toy
for most of the people. If you want to spend time and work, do it. But
dont expect, the world has waited for it.

Best regards
Michael Bernstein