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|    Silver Dream ! to Andreas Kohlbach    |
|    Re: GEOS    |
|    02 Sep 20 20:46:58    |
      From: silverdr@nospam.net              On 02/09/2020 17:38, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:       > 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.              Exactly. That's what I recall being reviewed and praised in a mainstream       printed magazine.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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