Subj : Re: Windows for Workgroups Networking
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Dec 13 2023 08:02:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni> In the mid-90s, I had read about GeoWorks but never saw it personally
 Ni> (except I think in AOL software - I think I read AOL used GeoWorks for
 Ni> their AOL desktop environment).  I thought GeoWorks sounded fairly
 Ni> interesting, and was another example of why I thought it was a bit
 Ni> disappointing that Windows took off as much as it did.

It was interesting -- used Motif as a window manager, and it looked like
the very expensive UNIXWare servers we had at work.

(aside: My boss was an idiot, and bought UNIXWare because it was
designed to work with Netware -- except we used it in a DMZ, separate
from our Netware network. Internally, we used BSD (which couldn't talk
to Netware) as he'd run out of budget buying UNIXware.)

They built some neat hooks into DR-DOS, and included Quattro Pro
(Borland's answer to Lotus 1-2-3) with the system, making it a decent
little system.

I used it on a 386sx-20 with 2 MB of RAM, it wasn't enough to run
Windows 3.1 well. Geoworks ran just fine.



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