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From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions about ST hw/sw upgrades
Message-ID: <1824@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 91 22:36:07 GMT
References: <11885@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1820@mwca.UUCP> <1991Mar12.201001.18669@cs.olemiss.edu>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA
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In article <1991Mar12.201001.18669@cs.olemiss.edu> tony@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds) writes:
>In article <1820@mwca.UUCP> bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) writes:
>>Geos isn't actually an OS, it is a graphical environment, just as GEM is
>>to TOS...
>Flame ON!
>
>All flames are C-64 specific--excuse my ignorance of PC Geos.
>
>Geos is a piece of crap Operating System...

I was referring to the new GEOS _for_PC-Clones_ - designed as a "poor-man's"
Windows 3 - in other words, it will run (quite well, I read) on a 512K
8088.  The reviews I've read have been quite good, but it is still simply
a GUI, relying on MS-DOS for the OS (and PC BIOS, to be precise).
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