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To: holymoly

I still have mine. And software for a GUI. I don't know how they did that with 64k.


6 posted on 12/20/2004 8:31:50 AM PST by Elvis van Foster
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To: Elvis van Foster

Was the GUI called Geoworks or somesuch as that? I had a 128...


18 posted on 12/20/2004 8:41:28 AM PST by Tennessee_Bob (Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?)
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To: Elvis van Foster
And software for a GUI.

Wasn't it called "GeOS" or something like that?

21 posted on 12/20/2004 8:44:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: Elvis van Foster

LOTS AND LOTS OF DISK SWAPPING!


24 posted on 12/20/2004 8:46:51 AM PST by HamiltonJay ("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
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To: Elvis van Foster
Was the GUI GEOS? I thought that was pretty impressive too. They had a whole object oriented programing kit too.
32 posted on 12/20/2004 9:10:06 AM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Elvis van Foster
I still have mine. And software for a GUI. I don't know how they did that with 64k.

Because Bill Gates didn't write it. My Commodore Amiga had the entire GIU operating system on 1 3 1/2" floppy, 1.44 Mb worth of storage. Today's Bloatware Win XP is several Gb!

61 posted on 12/20/2004 10:16:11 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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