On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 13:17:28 +0200, Silver Dream ! wrote:
>
> On 01/09/2020 09:45, Tristan Miller wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> On 30/08/2020 21.45, Erich B. wrote:
>>> Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was
my
>>> first taste of Windows.
>>
>>
>> I never used it myself, though I found the magazine advertisements for
>> GEOS and its attendant applications quite memorable.  Whoever came up
>> with them was a veritable marketing genius -- those ads were more
>> interesting to read than at least half of the articles in a typical
>> COMPUTE!'s Gazette.
>
> And GEOS is a masterpiece of a product too. For example GeoPublish was
> even reviewed as first class citizen among the well established DTP
> packages of the time and praised for excellent quality for the price

Was also important it had support for various printers, like HP-PCL and
the LaserWriter from Apple, thus was used in the professional environment.

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Andreas

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