From: silverdr@nospam.net   
      
   On 02/09/2020 13:11, J.B. Wood wrote:   
      
      
   > Hello, and while some vendors may have put bundles together (anyone old   
   > enough to remember Protecto Enterprises?), AFAIK GEOS was a   
   > separately-sold product.  I still have GEOS, DeskPack Plus, geoChart,   
   > geoFile and geoCalc for the C-64.  Cost a few bucks but IMHO these   
   > products were probably as close as you could get to "killer" apps on a   
   > C-64,   
      
   I remember doing rather sizeable spreadsheets on GeoCalc, which threw   
   the other C64 spreadsheet applications (I don't remember the names -   
   multiplan I think was one and the other don't remember - visicalc?) on   
   their knees, with quite reasonable performance.   
      
     given its limitations as a practical small business platform, let   
   > alone home use for MS Office-like stuff.  GEOS with its companion apps   
   > did some great Macintosh-like things but oh so slowly if all you had was   
   > one (not advisable) or two 1541 drives.  You really needed a 1750 RAM   
   > expansion or the GEOS RAM cart to get things moving.   
      
   True that. 1581 was already a good start as one could put/fit all needed   
   things on one disk. But only adding RAM card made it fly.   
      
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