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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: GeoWorks Ensemble: any comments?
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.010331.10556@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Mar 91 01:03:31 GMT
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In article <2600@ne3005.ingr.com> ken@point.ne1300.ingr.com (Ken Poore) writes:
>tony@cs.tamu.edu (Tony Encarnacion) writes:
>
>All in all, it's an excellent first release.  It's not a Windows clone, by
>any means; you can tell this by the minimum resources required.  If it 
>catches on at all, I think it'll be a serious contender.  In my opinion, it's
>what Windows should have been.

One question (I know nothing about GeoWorks other than hype)--will it be able
to run in protected mode someday?  The original Windows was delayed because
the memory manager was rewritten to be protected-mode API comatible; the
payoff is that the move from 2.xx to 3.0 wasn't too painful and now 
globally allocating 800K of memory is quite easy.  I'd say if GeoWorks
programs have to be rewritten to go protected, the system is doomed to the
640K graveyard... 

Aaron Wallace