On (30 Jun 96) SAM EWALT wrote to BILL WOLFF...
Hi SAM...
 SE> One Geos related question. How come none of the standard 
 SE> histories that I'm reading even mention Geos? They go into 
 SE> great detail about GEM, Topview, Viewmax, DESQ, Desqview and 
 SE> various other windowing environments designed to run on top of 
 SE> DOS that were in competition with Windows during the 1980's but 
 SE> there is no mention of Geos anywhere. Were they just out of it 
 SE> from the begining or what? When was Geoworks introduced ? And 
 SE> did it ever have a shot at being sucessful?
I believe the earliest GEOS stuff I have has a 1985 copyright and 
was written for the Commodore 64. Although I've heard a few people  
claim that GEOS started as early as 81/82, but I haven't seen 
anything very solid on this. Later somewhere about 1987/88, GEOS was 
released for the Apple ][ (didn't sell too well there). Then later, 
PC-GEOS hit the market around 1990.
And unfortunately, Windows v3.0 was also released this year and 
Windows apparently had stolen the spotlight away from GEOS. But that 
didn't stop some of us from noticing that GEOS does have it's 
benefits. Even IBM Canada was preinstalling GEOS on some of their 
computers for awhile. "GeoWorks Ensemble is one of the most 
successful PC software applications that we have ever sold," said 
Rick Dalmazzi, manager of Personal Systems software for IBM Canada.
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