There was a lot more going on in the 68k / Atari ST line than on PC, in the end.
In the 90s most of that was in Germany though. Read up on "Magic" OS sometime.
And these days, the modern variant of GEM is really EmuTOS and also Xaaes on the ST line.
I tried to cover some of that here:
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/96552.html