Subj : Re: GEOS
To : Tristan Miller
From : Silver Dream !
Date : Tue Sep 01 2020 01:17 pm
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
