gem

n 1: something highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: {treasure}]

2: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

[syn: {gemstone}, {stone}]

3: a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of

jewelry [syn: {jewel}]

4: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: {muffin}]

5: a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece

of jewelry [syn: {jewel}, {precious stone}]

GEM

One of the first commercially available

{GUI}s. Borrowing heavily from the {Macintosh} {WIMP}-style

interface it was available for both the {IBM} compatible

market (being packaged with {Amstrad}'s original {PC} series)

and more successfully for the {Atari} ST range. The PC

version was produced by {Digital Research} (more famous for

{DR-DOS}, their {MS-DOS} clone), and was not developed very

far. The Atari version, however, continued to be developed

until the early 1990s and the later versions supported 24-bit

colour modes, full colour {icons} and a nice looking sculpted

3D interface.

(1997-01-10)