[GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux

[Thomas Clayton]

Liam,

One goes to

http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven

which is to say

https://plus.google.com/104364266560536376165/posts

and 
clicks upon  ..
.
.
the corseted woman   .. is gone! Huh?

Just a sec. I saved the URL to direct friends to the pictures on her site
.
.
(ah yes, here it is)

https://plus.google.com/101104725981765415912/posts

. Michelle Rukcic had a little square picture appearing on the left-hand side of YOUR page. The same one that appears at the TOP of her's.

There is a "Friends" cartoon and the "caturday" down the page.


Tom Clayton
 

--- On Thu, 11/3/11, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM Desktop & Linux
> To: "GEM Development" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011, 12:04 PM
> On 3 November 2011 16:54, Thomas
> Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Liam,
> >
> > That was an interesting side-trip thru the web for me.
> First, I linked out to your google page, then to that
> woman-in-a-corset's page,
> 
> Er, which woman in a corset is that?!
> 
> I know several, actually - and I daresay my G+ account
> links to quite
> a few. It's one of the terrible burdens of being a bit of
> an old goth.
> ;¬)
> 
> > then National Novel Month,
> 
> Which I really must start doing...
> 
> > then back to her page finding a nice cartoon about
> friendship and a picture of cats on a car hood (for one of
> my sisters - the catSS owner) -
> 
> OK, really lost now!
> 
> > and I hadn't even gotten to any GEM related subject
> matter, yet!
> 
> :¬)
> 
> > AFrOS runs over ARAnyM and
> >
> > ARAnyM is a software virtual machine (similar to
> VirtualBox or Bochs) designed and developed for running
> 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT,
> MagiC and Linux-m68k) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind
> of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an
> Apple, an Unix server, a graphics workstation or even a
> portable computer.
> 
> I've tried Aranym. It's pretty impressive, actually. I was
> not an ST
> type but it's a very good effort at making an all-FOSS
> environment for
> running serious ST apps on x86 hardware.
> 
> > Later on, I think it said something about a mini-
> ?linux?.
> 
> MINT, I guess. MINT is like GNU - a recursive acronym: MINT
> stands for
> Mint Is Not TOS. TOS is the original Atari ST OS, based on
> DR
> CP/M-68K.
> 
> Gradually, all the bits of TOS got replaced, initially with
> enhanced
> 3rd party commercial replacements, then, ultimately, with
> FOSS ones,
> until eventually the team behind Aranym realised that they
> could build
> an entire, complete ST GEM-compatible OS from the ROM up
> out of FOSS
> components. The result is Afros.
> 
> Sadly, brilliant as it is, it was a bit too late - most of
> the
> hardcore ST types had migrated to other OSs by then. Shame,
> really.
> 
> 
> > Any way, Jeff can look that up for himself. (It is NOT
> acting as an X-WM - which is what I think he's interested
> in.)
> 
> No, it isn't. X.11 is not involved. It would be more a case
> of porting
> it to svgalib, I would think. That means no graphics
> acceleration,
> though, pretty much. (AIUI anyway.)
> 
> > The other two ref.s have been mentioned here, before,
> and are GOOD.
> >
> > Thanks again, for the respite - from work.
> 
> Glad to be of service!
> 
> 
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