ViewMAX

ViewMAX
Developer(s)Digital Research, Novell, Caldera Thin Clients
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 CUA-compliant file manager supplied with DR DOS versions 5.0 and 6.0. It is based on a cut-down runtime version of Digital Research's 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]

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