19 May
1998
19 May
'98
10:35 a.m.
At 11:21 PM 5/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
Geowork's GEOS was an early (better-than-Microsoft-but-crushed-anyway)
Windowing system that ran on both x86 and 6502 (and maybe more).
Also ran on the Commie C64 and 128. I have the manual for it. If anyone
wants it you can have it for $2 and the cost of shipping.
Joe
19 May
19 May
1:32 p.m.
At 08:35 AM 5/19/98, you wrote:
At 11:21 PM 5/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
Geoworks is still around (http://www.geoworks.com/) they're pushing GEOS
for handheld applications now. The cool thing is, it still runs on anything
Geowork's GEOS was an early (better-than-Microsoft-but-crushed-anyway)
Windowing system that ran on both x86 and 6502 (and maybe more).
Also ran on the Commie C64 and 128. I have the manual for it. If anyone
wants it you can have it for $2 and the cost of shipping.
Joe from an 8088 7MHz to a Pentium (I bet you could tweak
it to run on a 4.77
MHz 8088 if you really wanted to) and includes a everything you
need to do
networking, paging, email, fax, PIMs, etc. It requires 1 meg ROM and 512K
RAM. The SDKs go for a C-note.
Kind of puts Windows in perspective, doesn't it?
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.
--
David Wollmann
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
3:16 p.m.
On Tue, 19 May 1998, David Wollmann wrote:
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.
The cool thing is, it still runs on anything from an
8088 7MHz to a
Pentium (I bet you could tweak it to run on a 4.77 MHz 8088 if you
really wanted to) and includes a everything you need to do networking,
paging, email, fax, PIMs, etc. It requires 1 meg ROM and 512K RAM. The
SDKs go for a C-note.
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.
3:43 p.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.
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