Subj : Re: Today I learned
To   : AKAcastor
From : Spectre
Date : Wed Jun 19 2024 21:28:00

 pF> Geoworks looked like a Motif window manager, with lots of small apps
 pF> built-in, like a card file, word processor, publishing, and so on. It
 pF> would swap itself out for DOS apps. It was a fun little system back in
 pF> the early WYSIWYG days.

 AK> I think a friend's family's computer may have had Geoworks on it but I
 AK> would have only seen it exiting to DOS to play games. (Where In The World
 AK> Is Carmen Sandiego?)

 There was a version of GEOS with GEOWORKS available for the Apple II. Not
sure what their thought process was, but for something that was meant to
behave like an O/S they decided to copy protect it, on top of which it came
on 4 floppies.  It was a sad second place to Appleworks and Multiscribe back
then. The O/S aspect was made redundant by the fact you couldn't install it
on any kind of mass storage.

Spec


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