At 08:35 AM 5/19/98, you wrote:
>At 11:21 PM 5/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>Geowork's GEOS was an early (better-than-Microsoft-but-crushed-anyway)
>>Windowing system that ran on both x86 and 6502 (and maybe more).
>>
> Also ran on the Commie C64 and 128. I have the manual for it. If anyone
>wants it you can have it for $2 and the cost of shipping.
>
> Joe
Geoworks is still around (
http://www.geoworks.com/) they're pushing GEOS
for handheld applications now. The cool thing is, it still runs on anything
from an 8088 7MHz to a Pentium (I bet you could tweak it to run on a 4.77
MHz 8088 if you really wanted to) and includes a everything you need to do
networking, paging, email, fax, PIMs, etc. It requires 1 meg ROM and 512K
RAM. The SDKs go for a C-note.
Kind of puts Windows in perspective, doesn't it?
I thought I had read something recently about some company releasing a
re-hashed version of GEOS for PCs, but my proxy is hosed and a search would
take forever. I think it was on C|NET in a review of alternative OSs.
--
David Wollmann
dwollmann_at_ibmhelp.com
Received on Tue May 19 1998 - 11:32:38 BST