monochrome scarab lineart

2026-05-04,
of connections and publishing

Silkworm, Monday, 4 May 12026 HE
2026-05-04 | 26E04 | 2026-124 | 2461165
2026-W19-1 | Q2 | Verano

puddle and reflections, California

2013-08-11 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
puddle and reflections, California

the_miracle_aligner vs. David Bowie – “Heroes cover in Classical Latin” ↗

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as graphics started gaining popularity, DRI developed a graphics abstraction layer, GSX, that would run on CP/M and MS-DOS – 16-bit GSX went on to became the core of the GEM desktop environment – GEM went through multiple iterations, eventually being ported to the Motorola 68000 as GEMDOS with Atari being given full rights – and thus, Atari TOS powering Atari ST computers

along the way, Lee Lorenzen and a couple other employees left DRI to found Ventura Software, creator of Ventura Publisher (Ventura Publisher used GEM for its GUI) – Ventura Publisher got distributed worldwide by Xerox before being bought by Corel and surviving as Corel Ventura, holding its own against the likes of FrameMaker, QuarkXPress, and InDesign

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