GEM vs Workbench at Wikipedia

[Gregory DG]

Just doing some browsing on GUIs and came across this:

 

History of the GUI: GEM

 

Wow, someone knowledgeable should really flesh that out some more. That page makes it look like Workbench had more updates than GEM ever did!

 

[FastRobPlus]

It would be cool to see GEM pic on non ST hardware.

[+poobah]

Somewhere I have GEM disks for the PC, it was a little uglier after they had their tif with apple.

Might be neat to install it on an Atari PC-1

I'll post them if I find 'em

 

[ggn]

Well, imho, who cares what wikipedia says. It's not like it's a real encyclopedia. If people want to find out about Atari's GEM then they can find hundreds of pages with detailed info around the 'net.

[krupkaj]

I have seen the GEM3 on Atari PC1 and also on some 386 running Ventura Publisher. It was not bad.

 

BTW there is thread in Atari 8bit section about PC1 with photo of screen running GEM: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=103078

[Paolo]

@ggn: I must tell you that it *is* relevant what Wikipedia says because million of people rely on that as their first shot.

There are Wikipedia search buttons directly on the Search line in Firefox, and there is a Wikipedia Dashboard widget on Mac OSX.

 

You can try by yourself this: put a word of your choice into Google and watch the first ten results. You can bet that there is a Wikipedia entry amongst them.

[ggn]

@ggn: I must tell you that it *is* relevant what Wikipedia says because million of people rely on that as their first shot.

There are Wikipedia search buttons directly on the Search line in Firefox, and there is a Wikipedia Dashboard widget on Mac OSX.

 

You can try by yourself this: put a word of your choice into Google and watch the first ten results. You can bet that there is a Wikipedia entry amongst them.

 

Yep, I know that, google seems to favor wikipedia a lot in its results. And I must say that (wikipedia) has been very useful for lots of subjects I wanted a quick info. However, if I want to look deeper into a subject, wikipedia never suits my needs, so I search for alternate sources of info.

 

It's just that the original post had a slight hint of the old st-amiga war, like "oh look, the amiga people did ...., let's show 'em". Not to say that it'd bea bad thing to fill in the info in that article, but I personally won't lose any sleep over it.

 

My 0.00000000002 cents.

[Paolo]

Oh, I fully agree with you.

Always, always, use more than one source.

 

If I remember correctly, a few months ago, there was released the first full open source 3d animated cartoon, Elephant Dreams, made with Blender. The autors also produced a DVD, and in the "other languages" menu they used wikipedia to write the names of the languages (Italiano, not Italian, Espanol, not Spanish, ...)

Well, The translation for CATALAN had just been object of an attack, and bad words were used instead. Obviously, the authors couldn't know this, so in the DVD release of Elephant Dreams there is an offensive word in place of the title of Catalan language.

 

edit. better yet, I found the article :-)

http://orange.blender.org/blog/an-embarrassing-mistake/

Edited March 8, 2007 by Paolo