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by ekianjo 4325 days ago
Yeah, but still more recent than Atari's Gem.
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The Atari Gem thing is not an X, it's actually supposed to be a gem. It's just confusing because of the low-res image. Take a look at

http://toastytech.com/guis/gem11menu.png

That's not GEMTOS, that's GEM for DOS... big difference...
I was looking at the wrong end of the window, to boot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS#mediaviewer/File:ST_D...

Looks pretty X-like. It seems GEM itself was licensed from Digital Research but their GEM didn't use X.

Edit: Fixed DEC to DR, as pointed out by reply comment below.

I doubt DEC had anything to do with GEM. It was a product of Digital Research (same company that gave us CP/M, MP/M and DR-DOS)
They didn't, I just brainfarted. You know, http://vt100.net/dec/alpha_era_logo_small.png and all that.