ViewMAX

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ViewMAX
Initial release1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Stable release
ViewMAX 3 beta / April 1999; 25 years ago (1999-04)
Operating systemDR-DOS
TypeWindowing system
LicenseGNU General Public License

ViewMAX is a

GEM/3 graphical user interface modified to run only a single statically built application, the ViewMAX desktop.[1][2] Support for some unneeded functions has been removed whilst some new functions were added at the same time.[2] Nevertheless, the systems remained close enough for ViewMAX to recognize GEM desktop accessories (.ACC executables) automatically[3][4] and to allow some native GEM applications (.APP executables) to be run inside the ViewMAX environment (without having to install and launch GEM first).[3][4] Many display drivers for GEM 3.xx could be used by ViewMAX as well, enabling ViewMAX to be used with non-standard display adapters and higher resolutions than possible using the default set of ViewMAX drivers.[2][3][4] Also, Digital Research's SID86, the symbolic instruction debugger that shipped with DR DOS 3.xx and provided dedicated functions to debug GEM applications (see ?Y GEM-specific help under SID86 or GEMSID), could be used for ViewMAX as well.[5][6]

Versions

Originally named Navigator in beta versions,

access permissions were supported. Network drives (including CD-ROM drives) were distinguished through their own icon, different from those of local drives.[8]

In 1991, ViewMAX 2 was distributed with

DR-DOS 7.02 and higher continued to emulate most of the task switcher API as well,[4][11][21] ViewMAX 2 could be used to switch and control multiple concurrently running full-screen DOS tasks under the DR-DOS preemptively multitasking kernel (EMM386 /MULTI + TASKMGR) as well.[4][11][21]

ViewMAX 3 was intended to be the graphical file manager for

Novell DOS 7
, as "DR DOS 7.0" was called in 1994, came without any graphical file manager at all. When
GPL[25] following continued community request to release the sources, shortly before the company changed its name to Lineo and switched to Linux-based technologies three months later.[26] Various ViewMAX features not previously found in GEM have been incorporated into FreeGEM since then.[27][18]

See also

References

  1. ^ Elliott, John C. (1999-06-10). "Versions of GEM". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  2. ^ a b c Elliott, John C. (1999-05-09). "A comparison between GEM and ViewMAX". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  3. ^ a b c d Paul, Matthias R. (1997-04-13) [1993]. DRDOS6UN.TXT — Zusammenfassung der dokumentierten und undokumentierten Fähigkeiten von DR DOS 6.0 (in German) (60 ed.). Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-07. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e f Paul, Matthias R. (1997-06-07) [1994]. NWDOS7UN.TXT — Zusammenfassung der dokumentierten und undokumentierten Fähigkeiten von Novell DOS 7 (in German) (85 ed.). Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-07. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Paul, Matthias R. (1997-05-24) [1991]. DRDOSTIP.TXT — Tips und Tricks für DR DOS 3.41 - 5.0 (in German) (47 ed.). Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-07. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  6. ^ Elliott, John C. (2002-01-08). "SID86". Newsgroup: comp.os.cpm. Archived from the original on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2018-04-08. […] GEMSID has some additional features for GEM support. In particular, it supports swapping between the GEM graphics screen and the text screen (type ?Y for details). [...]
  7. Comes v. Microsoft. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  8. ^ a b c Elliott, John C. (2013). "ViewMAX/1 screenshots". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  9. ^ a b c d Elliott, John C. (2013). "ViewMAX/2 screenshots". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  10. ^ a b R., R. (1992-01-06). "Document 1209 - ViewMAX". Digital Research / Novell. FYI-M-1209. Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-04-03. (NB. 1209.TXT is also part of DRTIPS.ZIP)
  11. ^
    OpenDOS 7.01
    , including the description of many undocumented features and internals. It is part of the author's yet larger MPDOSTIP.ZIP collection maintained up to 2001 and distributed on many sites at the time. The provided link points to a HTML-converted older version of the NWDOSTIP.TXT file.)
  12. ^ Paul, Matthias R. (2001-06-10) [1995]. "Format description of DOS, OS/2, and Windows NT .CPI, and Linux .CP files" (CPI.LST file) (1.30 ed.). Archived from the original on 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
  13. ^ Elliott, John C. (2006-10-14). "CPI file format". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  14. ^ Elliott, John C. (2006-09-03). "Codepage-related software". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
  15. Brouwer, Andries Evert (2001-02-10). "CPI fonts". 0.2. Archived
    from the original on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  16. ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5
    .
  17. ISBN 1-55615-329-5
    .
  18. ^ a b Elliott, John C. (March 2006). "FreeGEM (2005-)". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  19. $FONT.SYS
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  20. Caldera, Inc. (August 1997). OpenDOS Developer's Reference Series — Multitasking API — Programmer's Guide. UK. Caldera Part No. 200-DODG-004. Archived from the original on 2016-12-29. Retrieved 2013-03-21.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  21. ^ a b Paul, Matthias R. (2001-12-16). "No lumps of coal". fd-dev. Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  22. ^ Elliott, John C. (2013). "ViewMAX/3 screenshots". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  23. ISSN 0113-1494. CMPWNZ. Archived from the original
    on 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  24. Caldera, Inc. Archived
    from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2018-08-26 – via www.delorie.com/opendos.
  25. ^
    GNU Public License
    in mid April, following years of speculation over GEM's future. Caldera bought the GEM sources from Novell along with the DR-DOS in 1996, at the time noting that they may develop GEM into a platform for mobile computers and thin clients. However, these plans were dropped, and GEM was instead released into the open-source community.
  26. Caldera, Inc. (1999-07-20). "Embedded Linux moved to top priority at Lineo, Inc. formerly known as Caldera Thin Clients, Inc." (Press release). Lindon, UT, USA. Archived
    from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
  27. ^ Elliott, John C. (March 2006). "FreeGEM (1999-2004)". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2018-09-10.

Further reading

  • Digital Research, Inc.
    Part Number: 1174-2004-002.     (88 pages)
  • Digital Research, Inc.
    Part Number. 1192-2054-002.     (106 pages)

External links

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