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Subject: Re: Full compatibility guaranteed

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 04:37:05 06/18/02

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>
>PC/Geos (aka Geoworks) was the most demanded of all.  :)
>
>Seriously, it was a terrific operating system. On a modest PC/XT with 640Kb RAM
>it allowed to type texts and draw graphics and get a full wysiwyg result. And it
>was fast. Incredible.

Also had different "user levels" with limited functions for beginners. Took
microsoft years before doing something similar in office (now hides seldom used
menue items).

And everything was integrated in one look&feel already !



>
>One of the coolest piece of code ever.
>
>At the same time Windows was at version 2 and was absolutely... unusable.
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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