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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: GeoWorks Ensemble: any comments?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.031321.26035@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <13085@helios.TAMU.EDU> <399@intuit.intuit.COM> <1991Mar17.194447.2756@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 03:13:21 GMT

In article <1991Mar17.194447.2756@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>Sure, GeoWorks is slick and fast and beautiful, but where was it in 1985
>when Windows first came on the market?  Weren't these guys brilliant back
>then yet?

Yes, they were.  Back in 1985, Berkeley Softworks was busy selling a new
windowing OS for Commodore 8-bit machines.

>Really, if you take into account the changes in software technology and so
>on, Geoworks isn't really much more advanced (relatively speaking) than
>Windows 1.0 was in its day.  There is no spreadsheet, and almost no other
>apps, and not even an SDK (Windows had one back then even).

The SDK is on the way.  As to applications, I'm sure someone else will
provide them once the SDK is out.

>And Geoworks
>does not take advantage of the fact that almost all new machines have over
>a megabyte of memory installed.

You're missing the point.  GeoWorks isn't supposed to compete with
Windows on the more powerful machines, it's supposed to blow away
Windows on the less well-endowed models.  Have you tried running Windows
on an XT?

                                Sincerely,

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
