GeoWorks -- Commodore/Apple/PC?

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Sun Apr 11 19:42:57 1999

GEOS wasn't multitasking? I have it on my Tandy Zoomer (with AOL), and can
switch back and forth between two programs, and they seem to be where they
were left before (They can't be minimized, like Windows, but they don't seem
to close).

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser_at_oa.ptloma.edu>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: GeoWorks -- Commodore/Apple/PC?
>::I Used to have a Commodore 128 that had GeoWorks on it (I think it was
>::actually GEOS, or something like that).  I also have a box and
font/graphics
>::set for the PC version or GeoWorks.  I've also heard that there was a
>::version of it for the Apple // series.
>
>PC GeoWorks != Commodore/Apple GEOS. Totally different architectures. The
>8-bit GEOS was a single-tasking GUI API; the PC version is actually an
entire
>true preemptively multitasking OS. AOL, before the Windows client emerged,
>in fact was based on a PC-GEOS runtime.
>
>Apple GEOS was an unmitigated flop, especially because Apple was heavily
>pushing Quark Catalyst. A shame, because Berkeley Softworks (now GeoWorks)
>was trying to add application cross-compatibility between Commodore and
Apple
>GEOS where possible.
>
>Commodore GEOS, on the other hand, was and is a big hit. It's still sold
>and manufactured, and now people have issued homegrown patches for it that
>allow it to take advantage of RAM expansion up to 16MB, hard drive real
>estate and the SuperCPU accelerators, and even do context-switching. Avoid
>versions before 1.5, however, and even then C= GEOS didn't come into its
own
>until v2.0.
>
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