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echo: tech
to: Jean Parrot
from: Jay Fuller
date: 2002-12-04 11:53:00
subject: Old system !

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

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

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


I grew up on GEOS. :)
I've even got the PC version =)

it's still active, but you can check out the GEOS fido conference
for info on that.  Last I heard, there was a nice multitasking graphical
environment that was efficient on even 286 machines.  It even includes
a web browser now...


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