Subj : Re: GEOS
To : Andreas Kohlbach
From : Silver Dream !
Date : Wed Sep 02 2020 08:46 pm
On 02/09/2020 17:38, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 13:17:28 +0200, Silver Dream ! wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Was also important it had support for various printers, like HP-PCL and
> the LaserWriter from Apple, thus was used in the professional environment.
Exactly. That's what I recall being reviewed and praised in a mainstream
printed magazine.
