Editing GEM (desktop environment) (section)

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[[File:Gem_11_Desktop.png|thumbnail|GEM 1.1 Desktop running in 640×350 EGA resolution]]
'''GEM Desktop 1.0''' was released on 28 February 1985.<ref name="ANALOG_TCS_1"/>
'''GEM Desktop 1.1''' was released on 10 April 1985 with support for [[Color Graphics Adapter|CGA]] and [[Enhanced Graphics Adapter|EGA]] displays.<ref name="Lineback_GEM11"/><ref name="Seasip_GEM11"/>
A version for the [[Apricot Computers]] F-Series, supporting 640×200 in up to 8 colors, was also available as '''GEM Desktop 1.2'''.<ref name="Seasip_Apricot"/>

Digital Research also positioned [[Concurrent DOS 4.1]] with GEM as alternative for [[IBM]]'s [[IBM TopView|TopView]].<ref name="CW_1985_CDOS"/>

DRI originally designed GEM for DOS so that it would check for and only run on IBM computers, and not [[IBM PC compatible|PC compatibles]] like those from [[Compaq]], as the company hoped to receive license fees from compatible makers. Developers reacted with what ''[[Byte (magazine)|BYTE]]'' described as "a small explosion"; it reported that at a DRI-hosted seminar in February 1985, more than half of the attendees agreed that GEM's incompatibility with Compaq was a serious limitation. Later that month the company removed the restriction.<ref name="Markoff_1985"/> Applications that supported GEM included Lifetree Software's [[GEM Write]].<ref name="Kisor_1985"/>

At this point, [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] sued DRI<ref name="Dilger_2007"/>{{unreliable source?|date=March 2018}} in what would turn into a long dispute over the "look and feel" of the GEM/1 system, which was an almost direct copy of [[Macintosh]] (with some elements bearing a closer resemblance to those in the earlier [[Apple Lisa|Lisa]], available since January 1983). This eventually led to DRI being forced to change several basic features of the system.<ref name="NYT_1985_GEM"/><ref name="Watt_1985_Apple"/><ref name="Watt_1986_Reorg"/><ref name="GUI_History"/><ref name="Dilger_2007"/> (See also: [[Apple v. Digital Research]].) Apple would later go on to sue other companies for similar issues, including their [[Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.|copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and HP]].

In addition to printers the system also contained drivers for some more unusual devices such as the [[Polaroid Palette]].<ref name="DRI_1984_MicroNotes2"/>