Subj : The Internet that could have been...
To   : Skylar
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 16:56:36

  Re: The Internet that could have been...
  By: Skylar to Nightfox on Thu Apr 11 2024 04:19 pm

 Sk> It was (and still is) amazing what GEOS could do on a 1 Mhz 8-bit 6510
 Sk> machine with 64KB. There were not a lot of applications available. But for
 Sk> WYSIWYG word processing and page layout, it was sweet.

Yeah, it was amazing what could be done with little resources.  I'm also reminded of a floppy disk image that was going around in 2001 or 2002ish (from what I remember) that was a QNX Real-Time OS demo which was a bootable 1.44MB floppy disk that booted into a full GUI and included a word processor, web browser, and a couple other things.  I thought it was fairly impressive.

 Sk> Same here. Although I grew up using a Commodore 64 and laughing at the
 Sk> limitations of a "PC compatible" and the low quality of PC games available
 Sk> at the time. By the time I was in high school, many of my (older) geek
 Sk> friends had an Amiga.

I was aware of Amiga and had used them just a couple times, though by the time I got my own computer, it was an IBM compatible in 1992.  Gaming was one of the things I did a lot with it, and I thought the games for it around that time were fairly decent.

 >> I thought OS/2 was good too..

 Sk> I bought OS/2 and gave it a try around 1993. I thought it had potential
 Sk> but we had major driver compatility issues. By then I'd been programming
 Sk> for MS-DOS using Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ for a few years and much
 Sk> preferred staying in DOS when using a "PC".

Interesting..  I thought OS/2 ran DOS applications fairly well.  I've heard people say it even multi-tasked DOS applications very well.  I'd often heard OS/2 described as a "better DOS than DOS" (and "better Windows than Windows").

Nightfox

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