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More competitor than simply related. At least on the PC front.

Isn't competition a kind of relationship? I kind of thought that anyone interested in one contemporary graphical Windows alternative might be interested in another. I would have mentioned Desqview too, but we already had a story about that very recently.

That's why I said "simply related" in my comment.

[OT] Lundukes writeup of desqview X https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1...

Was something I aspired to acquire, but never did.

Just running real-mode Win 3.1 in a window was a pretty awesome feat.

Yeah, GEM from Digital Research had nothing to do with GEOS/GeoWorks, apart from being DOS-based graphical interfaces that attempted to compete with Windows.

> apart from being DOS-based graphical interfaces

Yeah, apart from that. "Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?" As if someone interested in the history of such interfaces can even put that one into proper context without considering contemporary developments.

Come on.

"Related" can be used two different ways:

[1] This software is related to that software -- as in, they shared code, or a design, or something. PC GEM is related to Atari ST GEM; PC GEOS is related to C64 GEOS.

[2] software A is relevant to software B, and if one is considering A one should also know about B.

I think which is meant here is clear.

So was what I meant by the same word two comments earlier, but others still went out of their way to misread it. Why was that OK but then I have to "come on" for clarifying my original intent? Save your eye-rolls for the people who deserve them.

Yeah, that's fair. Sorry. I replied to the wrong person. My bad.

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