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|    Andreas Kohlbach to All    |
|    Re: GEOS    |
|    02 Sep 20 11:38:03    |
      From: ank@spamfence.net              On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 13:17:28 +0200, Silver Dream ! wrote:       >       > 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              Was also important it had support for various printers, like HP-PCL and       the LaserWriter from Apple, thus was used in the professional environment.              --       Andreas              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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