From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Jul 15 22:06:34 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <42D815C8.1020300@chello.nl> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:00:08 +0200 From: Henk Robbers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MiNT Mailing List Subject: [MiNT] GEM boost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: h.robbers@chello.nl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS X-Spam-Level: ** LS I am very happy to see that XaAES has become a boost for new develoments. I like GEM very much. Although it looks like a little tedious in its usage, once you have written 1 GEM program you mostly have dealt with the issues for further GEM programs. The main advantage of GEM over other GUI systems is that it allows programs to be a single threaded multiserver. In other words: a GEM program can handle any number of windows with a unlimited variety of content without the need for threads. A situation that greatly increases reliability, predictability and stability. A GUI is such a vital part of a computers strength that it is not a good idee to leave the issue to applications that come and go and are wrong at one time, than go bad and then go right again but a little bit different :-) A GUI must really be part of the OS. The part that is by far the most trustworthy part of any computer. XaAES will reach such a state of sophistication that people might want to create a version of LINUX that offers GEM as a alternative way of writing graphic applications on modern computers. Be it only to get the full benefit of the amazing performence of the latter. -- Groeten; Regards. Henk Robbers. mailto:h.robbers@chello.nl http://members.ams.chello.nl/h.robbers/Home.html Interactive disassembler: TT-Digger; http://digger.atari.org A Home Cooked teXt editor: AHCX