Kostas Michalopoulos schrieb:
Actually, Microsoft has nothing to do with GEM, it was made by Digital Research.
Right, but it was the first desktop presented by Microsoft.
Also technically GEM is/was very different from Windows (GEM relies on interrupts and can run only a single program while Windows was multitasking from the start,
I'm not sure what GEM has to do with multitasking.
GEM apps can be made by any DOS compiler that can issue interrupts and has the necessary header files, Windows apps require special compilers, etc).
I don't see a need for an special Windows compiler. The only requirement is a linker that links the resources into the executable. This was a separate program for a long time, in addition to the compiler and linker.
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