Subj : The Internet that could have been...
To : Skylar
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 04:56 pm
Re: The Internet that could have been...
By: Skylar to Nightfox on Thu Apr 11 2024 04:19 pm
Sk> It was (and still is) amazing what GEOS could do on a 1 Mhz 8-bit 6510
Sk> machine with 64KB. There were not a lot of applications available. But for
Sk> WYSIWYG word processing and page layout, it was sweet.
Yeah, it was amazing what could be done with little resources. I'm also reminded of a floppy disk image that was going around in 2001 or 2002ish (from what I remember) that was a QNX Real-Time OS demo which was a bootable 1.44MB floppy disk that booted into a full GUI and included a word processor, web browser, and a couple other things. I thought it was fairly impressive.
Sk> Same here. Although I grew up using a Commodore 64 and laughing at the
Sk> limitations of a "PC compatible" and the low quality of PC games available
Sk> at the time. By the time I was in high school, many of my (older) geek
Sk> friends had an Amiga.
I was aware of Amiga and had used them just a couple times, though by the time I got my own computer, it was an IBM compatible in 1992. Gaming was one of the things I did a lot with it, and I thought the games for it around that time were fairly decent.
>> I thought OS/2 was good too..
Sk> I bought OS/2 and gave it a try around 1993. I thought it had potential
Sk> but we had major driver compatility issues. By then I'd been programming
Sk> for MS-DOS using Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ for a few years and much
Sk> preferred staying in DOS when using a "PC".
Interesting.. I thought OS/2 ran DOS applications fairly well. I've heard people say it even multi-tasked DOS applications very well. I'd often heard OS/2 described as a "better DOS than DOS" (and "better Windows than Windows").
Nightfox
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