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Hello Jean - 

CA>> Wasn't "The Quick Brown Fox" or something named like that
CA>> the most popular C64 word processor? I remember hearing
CA>> about it often enough. 

JP> There also was GEOS ( Graphic Environment OS ) and it was
JP> GUI. A nice fellow, Maurice Randall, improved on it and
JP> called it Wheels. He was a Nascar driver ! Also very GUI
JP> and he did away with modt of the GEOS shortcomings. 

JP> The Brown Fox I did not see. Another PRG was Big Blue
JP> Reader, Big Blue being IBM, and it was to modify an IBM
JP> text file to a C= format or vice-versa. 

The CoCo had StarDOS based on FLEX, FLEX, OS9, and a few
others. All of these had optional GUIs and all were
multitasking OS. Seemed a shock to me to find IBM clones using
a single tasking OS as the dominant OS with few options and
640k of memory not being used for much of anything (at the
time). 

Warren Hrach ran his RiBBS on OS9 for quite a few years. It's
comparable to Linux but only requies 64k for the OS to
multitask in (yes K). At under 3mhz people could play a
graphics game and operate their BBS at the same time on the
same machine. 

Microware did offer an Intel version of OS9 eventually but it
was $700 US just for the OS some 15-20 years ago with no other
software. That would be like $2000 US is now. :-\ The Radio
Shack OS9 was licensed to sell for $99 US. Big difference,
about the cost of buying W98SE new right now in adjusted
dollars. 

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