The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s Competitor (2016)

Re:The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s ... by svachalek on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:03PM (#14749364)

GeoWorks was pretty cool on the 386 but GEOS on the Commodore 64 was just unreal -- it was slow and required some tedious disk swapping but even the idea of selectable, proportional fonts at different font sizes among its many other features was amazing on a 1MHz CPU, 64k RAM system.

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Re:The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s ... by krallja on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:59PM (#14749843)

I picked up my first C64 at a garage sale in the late 90s, and one of the disks it came with was GEOS. It really surprised me when it loaded and I realized what I was looking at.

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Re:The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s ... by eru on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:03AM (#14751304)

I also had GEOS on a C64, but I remember it being a cartridge---so no disk swapping required.

I picked mine up at a garage sale, too.

As an aside: I just learned/remembered that the original Nintendo Game Boy ran at roughly four times the CPU frequency of the C64.

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Re:The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s ... by paler on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:53AM (#14752503)

The Game Boy has a Z80-like processor, though. Generally, Z80 instructions take more clock cycles to execute than 6502 instructions, so the clock speeds are not directly comparable.

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Re:The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s ... by eru on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:10PM (#14757117)

Yes. The C64 also had more RAM.

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