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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Geos on the Commodores was a bloated piece of junk from the word go.
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PC Geos was actually very, very good for its time. They could run even on an old XT computer, offered true multitasking, even with 640K of RAM and also had a full featured word processor built in with the OS which offered you something brand new at the time -- WYSIWYG. Plus, it was one of the first to have full postscript printing capability, creating laser printer quality even on dot matrix printers. All of that sounds quaint today, but if they hadn't dithered away their lead and had actively looked for third party developers to write software for the OS instead of being ridiculously cagey about it, Geos might have been the OS most computers run on today. But Microsoft caught up about a year later, had their SDK out right away and about a year before Geos finally bothered to roll something out and the rest was history. . .