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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   
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