The new Xerox Desktop Software Inc in San Diego reckons that Digital Research Inc, Monterey, California has an undiscovered gem in its Graphics Environment Manager, and has taken a licence to it on an independent software vendor basis as a complement to its Ventura Publisher program, which is built on GEM. Terms were not disclosed, but the agreement is seen as the foundation for future co-operative market development programmes between the two companies. GEM was the first system software that offered support for mice, windows and bit-mapped graphic images such as icons, drop-down menus and raster fonts on Intel iAPX-86 machines.
