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From: rtb@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GemDraw GemWrite
Message-ID: <2182@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 11:50:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 11:50:03 1987
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Keywords: missing defunct why?



It seems obvious now that Gemwrite and GemDraw will never be
available for the ST. I am posting this article because
I am curious. Does anybody have any theories as to why these
two programs died on the vine? It should have really easy
for the programmers at DR to port it over from the IBM code.
They had the source, the knowledge of GEM, the manuals
written, and it shouldn't have been that big of a project. I suspect
it was part of the Apple-DR agreement of a couple of years ago
over the "look and feel" issues. I would think DR would take a new interest
in the ST because OS/2 with its presentation manager and  the newer
versions of Windows are going to take their toll on the PC sales of
GEM.

						R.T. Bradstrum