Dale Mentzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 5 Jun 99 at 0:00, Gunnar Thoele wrote:
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>>>Hallo Jerry!
>>>
>>>I just remember a very good GUI.
>>>It was the GEOS operating system for the commodore 64.
>>>That was a real operating system that brought graphical elements (menus
>>>and buttons and such) and technical improvement to the C64. It could use
>>>RAM extensions (that where in a similar technology like EMS boards) as
>>>disks, brought event-oriented programming, speedup programs for floppy
>>>drives, the concept of printer and input device drivers and the wastebin
>>>to such a slow machine.
>
>Yes, a true operating system with it's own kernal and file format (VLIR). You
>may be surprised to know that development continues on several fronts on the
>C64 and C128 version. No URLs off the top of my head, but a quick search on
>any search engine will lead you to loads of links.
About five years ago I got it for my Commodore +4. Unfortunately, this
one isn't maintained anymore. It seems to be quite good, useful and
sophisticated: you can even create your own printer drivers. Imagine
that for Windows!
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>Dale Mentzer
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