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==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Paul_1997_DRDOSTIP">{{cite book |title=DRDOSTIP.TXT — Tips und Tricks für DR DOS 3.41 - 5.0 |work=MPDOSTIP |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=1997-05-24 |orig-date=1991 |edition=47 |language=de |url=http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/drdostip.htm |access-date=2016-11-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107125452/http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/drdostip.htm |archive-date=2016-11-07}}</ref> <ref name="Paul_1997_DRDOS6UN">{{cite book |title=DRDOS6UN.TXT — Zusammenfassung der dokumentierten und undokumentierten Fähigkeiten von DR DOS 6.0 |work=MPDOSTIP |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=1997-04-13 |orig-date=1993 |edition=60 |language=de |url=http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/drdos6un.htm |access-date=2016-11-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107122830/http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/drdos6un.htm |archive-date=2016-11-07}}</ref> <ref name="Paul_1997_NWDOS7UN">{{cite book |title=NWDOS7UN.TXT — Zusammenfassung der dokumentierten und undokumentierten Fähigkeiten von Novell DOS 7 |work=MPDOSTIP |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=1997-06-07 |orig-date=1994 |edition=85 |language=de |url=http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/nwdos7un.htm |access-date=2016-11-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107122352/http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/nwdos7un.htm |archive-date=2016-11-07}}</ref> <ref name="Paul_1997_NWDOSTIP">{{cite book |title=NWDOS-TIPs — Tips & Tricks rund um Novell DOS 7, mit Blick auf undokumentierte Details, Bugs und Workarounds |work=MPDOSTIP |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=1997-07-30 |orig-date=1994 |edition=3 |version=Release 157 |language=de |url=http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/nwdostip.htm |access-date=2014-08-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104235829/http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/nwdostip.htm |archive-date=2016-11-04}} (NB. NWDOSTIP.TXT is a comprehensive work on [[Novell DOS 7]] and [[OpenDOS 7.01]], including the description of many undocumented features and internals. It is part of the author's yet larger <code>MPDOSTIP.ZIP</code> 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 <code>NWDOSTIP.TXT</code> file.)</ref> <ref name="Jemmett_1999">{{cite web |work=Deltasoft – GEM News |title=Caldera releases GEM under the GPL |date=April 1999 |author-first=Ben A. L. |author-last=Jemmett |url=http://www.deltasoft.com/news.htm |access-date=2016-11-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107145947/http://www.deltasoft.com/news.htm |archive-date=2016-11-07 |quote=[[Caldera Thin Clients, Inc.]] released the source code for [[Graphics Environment Manager|GEM]] and ViewMAX under the [[GNU General Public License|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<!-- correct: 1996, not 1997! -->, 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.}}</ref> <ref name="Caldera_1997_WebSpyder">{{cite web |editor-first=Joseph P. |editor-last=Morris |title=Caldera Announces OEM Availability of "Web-TV"-like Functionality Using OpenDOS - Caldera WebSpyder Adds Customizable Inter/Intranet Functionality to OEM Solutions |publisher=[[Caldera, Inc.]] |location=Provo, UT, USA |orig-date=1997-05-19 |date=1997-05-23 |via=www.delorie.com/opendos |url=http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos/1997/05/23/11:49:03 |access-date=2018-08-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826121756/http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos/1997/05/23/11:49:03 |archive-date=2018-08-26}}</ref> <ref name="Caldera_1999_Lineo">{{cite web |author=Caldera, Inc. |author-link=Caldera, Inc. |title=((Embedded Linux moved to top priority at Lineo, Inc. formerly known as Caldera Thin Clients, Inc.)) |type=Press release |date=1999-07-20 |location=Lindon, UT, USA |url=http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/fullstory/lineoprl.html |access-date=2017-06-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625000805/http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/fullstory/lineoprl.html |archive-date=2017-06-25}}</ref> <ref name="Paul_2001_API">{{cite web |title=No lumps of coal |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=2001-12-16 |work=fd-dev |url=http://lists.topica.com/lists/fd-dev/read/message.html?sort=d&mid=902766721 |access-date=2016-11-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107155848/http://lists.topica.com/lists/fd-dev/read/message.html?sort=d&mid=902766721 |archive-date=2016-11-07}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_1999_Versions">{{cite web |title=Versions of GEM |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |date=1999-06-10 |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/Gem/versions.html |access-date=2016-11-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107191316/http://www.seasip.info/Gem/versions.html |archive-date=2016-11-07}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_1999_Differences">{{cite web |title=A comparison between GEM and ViewMAX |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |date=1999-05-09 |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/Gem/viewmax.html |access-date=2016-11-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107214528/http://www.seasip.info/Gem/viewmax.html |archive-date=2016-11-07}}</ref> <ref name="Caldera_1997_MULTI">{{cite book |author=Caldera, Inc. |author-link=Caldera, Inc. |title=OpenDOS Developer's Reference Series — Multitasking API — Programmer's Guide |location=UK |date=August 1997 |id=Caldera Part No. 200-DODG-004 |url=http://www.drdos.net/documentation/multtask/index.htm |access-date=2013-03-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229144739/http://www.drdos.net/documentation/multtask/index.htm |archive-date=2016-12-29}}</ref> <ref name="Paul_2001_CPI">{{cite web |title=Format description of DOS, OS/2, and Windows NT .CPI, and Linux .CP files |type=CPI.LST file |author-first=Matthias R. |author-last=Paul |date=2001-06-10 |edition=1.30 |orig-date=1995 |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/MatthiasPaulCPI.zip<!-- not an official distribution archive, but contains an older version of CPI.LST --> |access-date=2016-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420065252/http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/MatthiasPaulCPI.zip |archive-date=2016-04-20}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_2006_CPI">{{cite web |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |title=CPI file format |date=2006-10-14 |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/DOS/CPI/cpi.html |access-date=2016-09-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922165307/http://www.seasip.info/DOS/CPI/cpi.html |archive-date=2016-09-22}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_2006_CPPREP">{{cite web |title=Codepage-related software |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/DOS/CPI/ |date=2006-09-03 |access-date=2016-11-09 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108220506/http://www.seasip.info/DOS/CPI/ |archive-date=2016-11-08}}</ref> <ref name="AEB_2001_CPI">{{cite web |title=CPI fonts |author-first=Andries Evert |author-last=Brouwer |author-link=Andries Evert Brouwer |date=2001-02-10 |version=0.2 |url=https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-3.html |access-date=2016-09-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922165133/https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-3.html |archive-date=2016-09-22}}</ref> <ref name="Haralambous_2007_CPI">{{cite book |title=Fonts & Encodings |url=https://archive.org/details/fontsencodings00hara_390 |url-access=limited |author-first=Yannis |author-last=Haralambous |translator-first=P. Scott |translator-last=Horne |location=Sebastopol, California, USA |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media, Inc.]] |date=September 2007 |edition=1 |isbn=978-0-596-10242-5 <!-- |ISBN=0-596-10242-9 --> |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fontsencodings00hara_390/page/n621 601]–602, 611}}</ref> <ref name="MS_1991_PR">{{cite book |title=MS-DOS Programmer's Reference |publisher=[[Microsoft Press]] |date=1991 |isbn=1-55615-329-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781556153297}}</ref> <ref name="DRDOS60V_ViewMAX">{{cite web |author-first1=Roy |author-last1=Tam |author-first2=John C. |author-last2=Elliott |title=DR DOS 6.0/V |date=2014-01-12 |url=https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30331 |access-date=2017-01-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903045928/https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30331 |archive-date=2018-09-03 |quote=[...] outline of the support in the video driver ({{mono|SDJVG9.VGA}}) [...] At startup, it calls <code>INT 15h/AX=5000h</code> to get the address of the [[DOS/V]] 'read font' function. If [...] present, it sets a [...] [[DBCS]] [...] flag on the system font. [...] it uses <code>INT 21h/AX=6507h</code> to get the DBCS lead byte table. When a string is passed to [...] text output functions, if a DBCS font is in use and the DBCS lead byte table is loaded, the code checks for DBCS lead/trail bytes in the string passed to it, and combines each pair into a 16-bit character ID. When drawing a character, it checks to see if the character ID is above 256. If so, it calls the DOS/V 'read font' function to get that character's bitmap, and instructs the drawing code to draw 16 pixels from offset 0 of that bitmap, rather than 8 pixels from the system font bitmap at a given offset. There are similar checks in the optimised monospaced text drawing code, allowing characters to be 8 or 16 pixels wide.}} (NB. Has screenshots of a [[DBCS]]-enabled version of ViewMAX running on [[DR DOS 6.0/V]] and a [[hex dump]] of the corresponding DRFONT database {{mono|SCREENHZ.FNT}} for its {{mono|[[$FONT.SYS]]}}.</ref> <ref name="MS_DR50">{{cite web |author=Microsoft |author-link=Microsoft |title=DR DOS 5.0 Competitive Analysis |type=court document |id=5114_A [[Comes v. Microsoft]] |url=http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05114_A.pdf |access-date=2017-01-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118114018/http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05114_A.pdf |archive-date=2017-01-18}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_2002_GEMSID">{{cite newsgroup |title=SID86 |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |date=2002-01-08 |newsgroup=comp.os.cpm |url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.cpm/KG4R7ZNvHK8/wF6ZW1TyYj4J |access-date=2018-04-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180827033457/https://groups.google.com/forum/%23!msg/comp.os.cpm/KG4R7ZNvHK8/wF6ZW1TyYj4J |archive-date=2018-08-27 |quote= […] 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). [...]}}</ref> <ref name="Leon_1996_Caldera">{{cite news |title=Caldera reopens 'settled' suit, buys DR DOS — Antitrust suit against Microsoft |author-first=Mark |author-last=Leon |series=News |date=1996-07-29 |newspaper=[[InfoWorld]] |publisher=[[InfoWorld Publishing Co.]] |volume=18 |issue=31 |issn=0199-6649 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jj0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3 |access-date=2020-02-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200208123222/https://books.google.de/books?id=Jj0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PP1&focus=viewport&hl=de |archive-date=2020-02-08}} [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Jj0EAAAAMBAJ/page/n6/mode/1up]; {{cite news |title=Caldera reopens 'settled' suit, buys DR DOS — Microsoft's response: lawsuit is 'ironic and sad' |author-first=Mark |author-last=Leon |date=1996-07-29 |newspaper=[[Computerworld New Zealand]] |issn=0113-1494 |id=CMPWNZ |volume=<!-- different from US issue --> |number=<!-- different from US issue --> |publisher=[[IDG Communications]] |url=https://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/519730/caldera_reopens_settled_suit_buys_dr_dos/ |access-date=2018-02-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823043437/https://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/519730/caldera_reopens_settled_suit_buys_dr_dos/ |archive-date=2018-08-23}} <!-- This article cannot be found in the US issue of Computerworld |issn=0010-4841 |volume=30 |number=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrz6PIR7f0oC --></ref> <ref name="Elliott_2006_FreeGEM1">{{cite web |title= FreeGEM (1999-2004) |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/freegem.html |date=March 2006 |access-date=2018-09-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130904065625/http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/freegem.html |archive-date=2013-09-04}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_2006_FreeGEM2">{{cite web |title= FreeGEM (2005-) |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |date=March 2006 |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/freegem2.html |access-date=2018-09-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180911231841/http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/freegem2.html |archive-date=2018-09-11}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_2013_ViewMAX1">{{cite web |title=ViewMAX/1 screenshots |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |date=2013 |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/viewmax1.html |access-date=2018-09-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111211126/http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/viewmax1.html |archive-date=2013-01-11}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_2013_ViewMAX2">{{cite web |title=ViewMAX/2 screenshots |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |date=2013 |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/viewmax2.html |access-date=2018-09-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180911232803/http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/viewmax2.html |archive-date=2018-09-11}}</ref> <ref name="Elliott_2013_ViewMAX3">{{cite web |title=ViewMAX/3 screenshots |author-first=John C. |author-last=Elliott |date=2013 |website=Seasip.info |url=http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/viewmax3.html |access-date=2018-09-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130904065555/http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/viewmax3.html |archive-date=2013-09-04}}</ref> <ref name="Novell_1992_VM2">{{cite web |title=Document 1209 - ViewMAX |date=1992-01-06 |author-first=R. |author-last=R. |publisher=[[Digital Research]] / [[Novell]] |id=FYI-M-1209 |url=http://www.pcorner.com/list/AOS/DRTIPS.ZIP/1209.TXT/ |access-date=2018-04-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403214952/https://www.pcorner.com/list/AOS/DRTIPS.ZIP/1209.TXT/ |archive-date=2018-04-03}}<!-- https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=en&tl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcorner.com%2Flist%2FAOS%2FDRTIPS.ZIP%2F1209.TXT%2F&anno=2 --> (NB. 1209.TXT is also part of DRTIPS.ZIP)</ref> }}
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