There was a dude who came to our school in Melbourne Australia from the United States, I would have been 13 so that makes it 1988. We had C64s and this American dude loaded GEOS onto one and started using it for a bit of stuff. We were flabbergasted as we didn't think the C64 was capable more than just Logo or a few games, I think we might have had some terrible CBM wordprocessor but GEOS kicked the pants off it. Sadly by this time we were getting PC based and there was also a Mac 512k in head teacher's office that you could use with permission. So it was not more than a novelty but I still think that GEOS is an amazing bit of kit.

cheers Nick

On Mar 19, 2017 10:05 AM, "Steffen Nurpmeso" <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com> wrote:
|On Saturday, March 18, 2017, Steffen Nurpmeso <[1]steffen@sdaoden.eu[/1]> \
|wrote:
|Lyndon Nerenberg <[2]lyndon@orthanc.ca[/2]> wrote:
| |> On Mar 17, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Dan Cross <[3]crossd@gmail.com[/3]> wrote:
| |Doh! It just strikes me that the term I have been missing is "window \
| |manager." Early Macs, Windows, Oberon, etc., were window managers.
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|Not to forget GEOS on Commodore 64, years before Windows.
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|Actually it was not "years before Windows". Windows 1.0 was released in
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|1985, while GEOS for Commodore 64 in 1986. If we are talking about early

That is Wikipedia, but i bet i was not more than a quarter of
a year. In fact i am a bit surprised, my parents divorced when
i was fourteen, and i really can remember myself using GEOS
proper. And then, this was all in 8-bit, 64 KB, 1 MHz! However
they did that! With paint program, write program..

|"window managers" I think it is desirable to also mention early text mode
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|window managers like PathMinder which was released before Windows, in
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|1984.

Ya, hm, i surely was a books rat at that time.

--steffen