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> From the picture in the January 28 cover-dated issue of Infoworld, GEM looks
> very poor on Atari's ST line.  From the picture, it appears that GEM makes
> extensive use of character fonts (rather than bit-mapped graphics) to create
> windows and icons.  Compared to the Macintosh, it looks like garbage.  Anyone
> who expects this to be a color Mac may get their color, but it won't be much
> of a Mac.  Frankly, I don't believe Apple has much to worry about from these
> machines.  On a real computer, GEM might be fantastic.  On the Atari ST?
> Buaaaaaa!
> 		.rne.
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The GEM developers are known as the "BitMap Mafia" for a good reason.  GEM does
*NOT* use "character fonts" (I assume you mean special characters in a hardware
character generator) to do anything.  It's all bit-mapped.  I thought the Atari
hardware was quite reasonable at first inspection.  Magazine pictures can be
deceiving.
						-Steve