19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
8:20 a.m.
It was a very constrained environment, but it's real power was in its WYSIWYG, and
it's soft fonts.
I blame GEOS for making my c64 too productive as a kid as I so wanted one of those fancy
16bit machines. I ended up buying used pc parts to amass my first PC, as my parents were
dead set that you could do anything on the c64, and upgrading was pointless...
On March 19, 2017 7:32:39 AM GMT+08:00, Nick Downing <downing.nick(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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(a)sdaoden.eu
<mailto:steffen@sdaoden.eu> > wrote:
Andy Kosela < akosela(a)andykosela.com <mailto:akosela@andykosela.com> >
wrote:
|On Saturday, March 18, 2017, Steffen Nurpmeso <[1] steffen(a)sdaoden.eu
<mailto:steffen@sdaoden.eu> [/1]> \
|wrote:
|Lyndon Nerenberg <[2] lyndon(a)orthanc.ca <mailto:lyndon@orthanc.ca>
[/2]> wrote:
| |> On Mar 17, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Dan Cross <[3] crossd(a)gmail.com
<mailto: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.
|
| [1] mailto: steffen(a)sdaoden.eu <mailto:steffen@sdaoden.eu>
| [2] javascript:;
| [3] javascript:;
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|Not to forget GEOS on Commodore 64, years before Windows.
|
|Actually it was not "years before Windows". Windows 1.0 was released
in
|
|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
|
|window managers like PathMinder which was released before Windows, in
|
|1984.
Ya, hm, i surely was a books rat at that time.
--steffen
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