On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Home work assignment:
>
> What language is New Deal programmed in?
Well! In accepting this assignment, I suddenly realize why
I like AnotherLevel with Lesstif look. Lesstif is a clone of
Motif, and guess what the "window manager" was that GEOS used?
That's right folks! Motif. :-)
Other than that, I'll just guess that the GEOS kernel was
written in ASM. In order to fit in a Commodore 64, how could
it be anything but? Then when they ported to the PC, GeoWorks
was much smaller than Windoze, yet more functional. I would
strongly guess that PC/GEOS was still written in assembly.
Later on, New Deal did come out with a kind of "Visual Basic"
kind of IDE, and I'm sure some of the ND apps might be written in
that, but that's a different ballgame than the (quasi)OS itself.
PC/GEOS 1.0 was way better than Windows 3.0 I think because
they started from a Commodore 64 background, which made them
very conscious of tight code.
- Steve (who still has his 1.2 and 2.0 manuals and floppies...
maybe the C=64 manuals are even still hidden away in a box
somewhere)
