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   Silver Dream ! to Tristan Miller   
   Re: GEOS   
   01 Sep 20 13:17:28   
   
   From: silverdr@nospam.net   
      
   On 01/09/2020 09:45, Tristan Miller wrote:   
   > Greetings.   
   >   
   > On 30/08/2020 21.45, Erich B. wrote:   
   >> Does anyone remember this on the C64c when it was bundled with it? It was my   
   >> first taste of Windows.   
   >   
   >   
   > I never used it myself, though I found the magazine advertisements for   
   > GEOS and its attendant applications quite memorable.  Whoever came up   
   > with them was a veritable marketing genius -- those ads were more   
   > interesting to read than at least half of the articles in a typical   
   > COMPUTE!'s Gazette.   
      
   And GEOS is a masterpiece of a product too. For example GeoPublish was   
   even reviewed as first class citizen among the well established DTP   
   packages of the time and praised for excellent quality for the price   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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