19 May
1998
19 May
'98
6:43 a.m.
On Tue, 19 May 1998, David Wollmann wrote:
Ah yes. And Geoworks missed a large opportunity to take the desktop.
They needed a better comm program, a TCP/IP stack, an internet
capable print spooler, a browser.
Actually, Geoworks on top of FreeBSD/Linux/NetBSD would've been a
great platform for the desktop midrange platform.
I gave up on it at V2.01 when the applications for it dried up and
New Deal had not yet come out.
Bill
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Geoworks is still around
(http://www.geoworks.com/) they're pushing GEOS
for handheld applications now.
We are. We've sold all our desktop software rights and so forth to New
Deal, Inc (www.new-deal.com) to focus on the embedded market.
This feature list is from the newest rel which we do not sell to end
users. PC-GEOS ran on top of DOS and was very usable in 512k on an XT
until version 2.0 when IMO it took a turn downhill, but it was at 2.0 that
the SDK became available for third party developers.
The GEOS we sell is no longer anything like a desktop operating system.
We also have several ports of GEOS to other embedded processors.
I thought I had read something recently about
some company releasing a
re-hashed version of GEOS for PCs, but my proxy is hosed and a search would
take forever. I think it was on C|NET in a review of alternative OSs.
That would be New Deal. It is my opinion that they have turned PC-GEOS
away from what made it a wonderful software package (simplicity, elegance)
to bow to the pressures of creeping featurism.
ok
r.
Not speaking for Geoworks, Inc. All opinions expressed are entirely my
own and not necessarily shared by anybody else.