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Re:Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 by WillAdams on Saturday August 08, 2026 @09:33PM (#49227553)
Well there was GeoWorks (which AOL used the GUI of to their advantage):

https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos

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Re:Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 by lepicz on Sunday August 09, 2026 @01:04AM (#49228593)
when i'm feeling blue i go read and toy with geoworks source.. it's kinda weird to read TODOs from 1900 :)

and one wonders what could have been if there were not incompetency of microsoft etc..

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Re:Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 by erwan577 on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:52AM (#49229038)
PC GEOS was much later circa 1990, the company spends years maintaining the first version targeting the C64 and Apple II. I also remember fondly the quality of prints produced by PC GEOS which included lots of home printer drivers. The system used an alternate vector font system not Truetype. Its SDK is probably still very interesting, but i suspect the complexity level was one of the reasons so few third party apps were developped for it.
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Re:Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 by anthk on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:46AM (#49230225)
>The SDK requires "sed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed) and "perl" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl) to be installed.

Perl can do sed(1).

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