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2008-08-03
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This reminds me... at about the time Windows 3.0 came out, there was also a GUI called Geo-something-or-other, that was smaller, faster, and actually did some things better than Windows (like proportional font printing and graphics). It got smashed by the market of course, although it survived for a while in embedded devices. I guess it could be made to run in DOSBOX if only someone has kept in in a drawer :-)
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2008-08-03
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GeoWorks. Don't ask me how much money I lost investing in that company in the dot com era (hint: it is the only reason I still toil in a 9-5 job today).
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2008-08-03
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would that be geoworks?
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/...v1-2/index.htm
edit: heh, to slow...
Last edited by tso; 2008-08-03 at 15:51.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/...v1-2/index.htm
edit: heh, to slow...
Last edited by tso; 2008-08-03 at 15:51.
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2008-08-03
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Originally Posted by piku
Bravo! That is fascinating! How fast does it run?
Inspired by this post, and being slightly bored on a warm, quiet Sunday I present to you...
The GEM Desktop in DOSBOX. I wrote about it on my website if anyone's interested in how I made it work
http://www.piku.org.uk/drupal/conten...t-using-dosbox
And it's not fake either :P
bun
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2008-08-03
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Originally Posted by bunanson
It's not bad. A bit slow, but kind of usable, it'll crash if anything tries to open a display that won't fit on the N810's screen though.
Bravo! That is fascinating! How fast does it run?
bun
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2008-08-03
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Yes, that was GeoWorks, it came back to me later (as usual).
A fine product actually, but the worse timing you could think of...
Anyone have that DOS version ?
A fine product actually, but the worse timing you could think of...
Anyone have that DOS version ?
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2008-08-03
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http://www.breadbox.com/dldetails.as...&maincategory=
thats a howto from breadbox (the current father of GWOS) on running it though DOSBOX in windows, but it asks for 1GHZ proseccsor =/
interesting though, they seem to be running breadbox (atleast their apps...) on the Nokia 9000/9110, 9210/9290 and the 9500/9300
starting point atelast
thats a howto from breadbox (the current father of GWOS) on running it though DOSBOX in windows, but it asks for 1GHZ proseccsor =/
interesting though, they seem to be running breadbox (atleast their apps...) on the Nokia 9000/9110, 9210/9290 and the 9500/9300
starting point atelast
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2008-08-03
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Actually I think you have it backwards : the Howto explains how running GW in DOSBOX solves the problem that CPUs above 1Ghz are *too fast* for Geoworks !
So we should be fine at 400 Mhz on our tablets :-)
So we should be fine at 400 Mhz on our tablets :-)
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2008-08-03
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http://www.vetusware.com/download/En...202.0/?id=3907
GeoWorks Ensemble v 2.0
Im having a hard time finding any spec sheet for this relase though
so I have no idea what the sys requirements are, but I did find this review from 1993
the article is really funny, in a "oh, rember back when..." sort of way
for example...
full article..
http://www.markshapiro.com/Issue8.p12-p30.html
GeoWorks Ensemble v 2.0
Im having a hard time finding any spec sheet for this relase though
so I have no idea what the sys requirements are, but I did find this review from 1993
PC/GEOS is the multitasking operating system core of the GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0 software package for the IBM PC. It runs comfortably on a 386SX-16 with 2 MB of memory. The installation takes only 9 MB of disk space. My GeoWorks directory is 25 MB because of the enormous amount of data files I have collected. (Dozens of fonts, thousands of icons, dozens of pages of clip-art, etc..)
for example...
Do you need to use your computer for more than one thing at once? I do, and apparently there are millions more like me, as demonstrated by the sales of DesqView, OS/2, Windows, etc...
What do most graphical multitasking Operating Systems have in common? High system requirements and slow performance. OS/2 (v2.1) for example needs 8 MB of memory and 35 MB of disk space just to run a few small or medium size applications. For major applications to run well, you need even more memory and disk space.
full article..
http://www.markshapiro.com/Issue8.p12-p30.html
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2008-08-04
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heh, that statement about what graphical environments have in common is on level with this from old-computers.com, about the choice of cpu for the ibm pc:
can someone say innovators dilemma?
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274
After hesitation between the Intel 8086 (16 bit) and the Motorola MC68000, they decided to use the Intel 8088 (8 - 16 bit) processor, as the two other ones were considered too powerful!
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274