[MiNT] GEM boost

[Henk Robbers <h.robbers@chello.nl>]

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.


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