GEM (for Graphics Environment Manager) is a discontinued operating environment released by Digital Research in 1985. GEM is known primarily as the native...
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In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating...
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telescopes and cameras GEM (desktop environment) (Graphics Environment Manager), a software operating environment from Digital Research GEM, a compiler backend...
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earth silicate, a mineral wool Application Environment Services, a component of GEM (desktop environment) Atomic emission spectroscopy, a method of chemical...
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with the GEM desktop environment with Publish-It! for the IBM PC and Apple IIGS. Released in 1988, it was an adaptation of their earlier Desktop Publisher...
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graphical user interface operating environments such as IBM TopView, Microsoft Windows, Digital Research's GEM Desktop, GEOS and Quarterdeck Office Systems's...
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Atari TOS (redirect from DESKTOP.INF)
following: Desktop – The main interface loaded after bootup. GEM – Graphics Environment Manager, licensed from Digital Research AES – Application Environment Services...
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Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using dedicated software on a personal ("desktop") computer. It was first used almost exclusively...
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Windowing system (redirect from Windowed desktop metaphor)
display servers History of the graphical user interface Widget toolkit Desktop environment Kent, Allen; Williams, James G. (1996-10-11). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers:...
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Graphical user interface (redirect from Desktop (computing))
modeled through a desktop metaphor to produce a simulation called a desktop environment in which the display represents a desktop, on which documents...
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similarity to the Macintosh desktop led to a copyright lawsuit from Apple Computer, and a settlement which involved some changes to GEM. This was to be the first...
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interface elements. Motif is the toolkit for the Common Desktop Environment and IRIX Interactive Desktop, thus it was the standard widget toolkit for Unix....
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idea to extend its desktop presence with a graphical computing environment was to adapt Digital Research's GEM desktop environment, but Novell's legal...
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ViewMAX (redirect from Novell NetWare Desktop System ViewMAX)
Digital Research's GEM/3 graphical user interface modified to run only a single statically built application, the ViewMAX desktop. Support for some unneeded...
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user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment. They work in conjunction with the underlying graphical system that...
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Timeworks Publisher (category GEM software)
was an inexpensive introduction to desktop publishing. For the IBM PC, Timeworks ran on Digital Research's GEM Desktop (supplied with the program) as a...
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Desk accessory (section GEM)
transient or auxiliary application that can be run concurrently in a desktop environment with any other application on the system. Early examples, such as...
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Virtual Device Interface, a component of Digital Research's Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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X Window System (redirect from X Window desktop)
application software – such as window managers, GUI widget toolkits and desktop environments, or application-specific graphical user interfaces – define and provide...
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of a MiNT-like operating system (OS) and kernel plus GEM compatible AES (Application Environment Services). The English language distribution is intended...
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Electron (software framework) (category Cross-platform desktop-apps development)
and maintained by OpenJS Foundation. The framework is designed to create desktop applications using web technologies (mainly HTML, CSS and JavaScript, although...
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Gemology (section General identification of gems)
Dichroscope Spectroscope (handheld or desktop) Penlight Tweezers Stone cloth Color filter Immersion cell Ultraviolet lamp Gem identification is basically a process...
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An environment variable is a user-definable value that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. Environment variables are part...
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Emmabuntüs (section Desktop environment)
defined by the type of user (children, beginners and "all"). The desktop environment is Xfce with Cairo-Dock. LXQt is also included. Startup Screenshot...
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screen, or "snapped" as a sidebar alongside another app, or the desktop environment. Along with allowing Windows Store apps to run in a traditional window...
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System V Release 4, and the WISh2 windowing or graphical shell,: 1 a desktop environment running on OSF/Motif supplied by Non Standard Logics, as well as...
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List of operating systems (redirect from List of desktop operating systems)
successor to FLEX, which was for Motorola 6800 CPUs) Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) (windowing GUI for CP/M, DOS, and Atari TOS) GEOS (popular windowing...
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Direct Rendering Manager (redirect from Linux GEM)
global namespace, and GEM provides one through the use of global handles called GEM names. A GEM name refers to one, and only one, GEM object created within...
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VMware (redirect from Virtual Desktop Manager)
commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its...
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Wayland (protocol) (section Desktop environments)
relies on GEM to share application buffers between the compositor and applications. It contains a plug-in system of "shells" for common desktop features...
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