Here is some info on GeoWorks. http://www.chromehorse.net/rants/rants99/geoworks.htm
Do you realize that four years before Windows was released there were at lease four other windowing systems avaiable. One of thoses was Gem developted by Gary Kildall and Digital Reseach ( the developers of CP/M). History says that Gary showed Bill Gates (a friend at the time) a demo of Gem and 5 or six years later Microsoft come up with Windows. And here is a little more about the man who made what we do with computers today a reality. http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=928/ddj9718i/9718i.htm And I don't mean Bill Gates. Gary Kildall once said "Ask Bill Gates why function code 6 ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me." Yet it was in Gates's programs. Will Lowe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chopin Cusachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] OS/2 and Microsoft > > As I recall OS/2 was written for IBM by Microsoft. > > Seems particularly interesting to me that multithreading and > preemptive multitasking were well established around 1980 in the > VAX/VMS line from Digital, and at a similar time in Unix. The > VAX had hardware access control and paging, so our VAX-11/780 > ran well for some years for a few users at a time with only 1/2 MB > of physical memory. We increased the memory as the operating > system got bloated enough to demand it. > > DOS reminded me of the Kludge Monitor for the IBM 7044 back > in the 1960s. It could load a job, turn over control to the job, > and when the job completed, aborted, or timed out, reload itself. > Later versions did do a bit more. > > There was another graphical operating system that beat Windows > 3.1 hands down in a head to head competition at HAL-PC in > Houston I attended. Was the name GeoWorks or something like > that? > > Choppy > > At 02:14 AM 5/31/03 -0500, you wrote: > > >I came across this ( > >http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/faq/os2faq-toc.html ) site on the web. > >If you want to know about OS/2 it might interest you. I didn't know much > >about OS/2-- my previous knowledge of OS/2 was limited to ---"OS/2 is a > >superior OS than M$ Window$". But this article tells more about OS/2. > > > >Below is a portion of what the article said about OS/2. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
