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From: Andrew.Merton@actrix.gen.nz (Andrew Merton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Geoworks
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.210447.18721@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 11 Jun 91 21:04:47 GMT
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Comment-To: dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

I've been having much FAX traffic to and from Geoworks re their sdk. 
The latest gen I have is that the first release will only need a minor
platform to run on; a SUN SPARCstation or possibly a 386 running UN*X.
 They don't expect to have a DOS sdk until the 4th quarter this year.
 
 I think this is a Big Mistake; who can afford to by a SPARCstation? 
 They won't get any 3rd party s/w to let them compete with Windows 3.0
 for a long time, by which time they'll probably have missed the boat.
 
 Pity.  I got the Working Model (full Ensemble, except you can't save
 any files from anywhere.  US$9.95).
 
 I also got the System Software Overview.  They've done a Real Nice Job
 on the system; like, you can (theoretically) tell Geos whether you want
 it to look like Motif, Open Look or CUA (e.g. Windows) and the same code
 will run under any windowing model.  Very impressive; of course, they
 recommend that you code in Object Assembler.  Why not C(++)?  I guess
 for speed and size.  It goes like the clappers.
 
 TINAR.
 
 (But I'm a Believer!)
 
 
-- 
andrew.merton@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
"The relevant equation is Knowledge = Power = Energy = Mass.  A good bookshop
is a genteel Black Hole that can read."
                      Terry Pratchett, "Guards, Guards!"