Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, wha

[arakes@tsdatl.rockwell.com (Alan A. Rakes)]

In article 48M@boss.cs.ohiou.edu, skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis) writes:
>Jeff A. Harrell (jharrell@dfw.net) wrote:
>
>: >No, Geos for the C64 came out after the Mac came out. I had both. The
>: >AppleII never had a GUI.
>: >
>: >However Apple was selling personal computers while IBM said the was no
>: >market for personal computers!
>: >
>: >Ak
>
>: Rrrr. Back around 1982 or 1983 I owned an Apple //c. I remember DOS 3.3
>: and ProDOS vividly, of course, but towards the end of my relationship with
>: that platform I also remember a GUI-of-sorts that ran on top of ProDOS,
>: just like Windows 3.1 ran on top of MS-DOS.
>
>: What I _can't_ remember is what that was called or whether it was an Apple
>: product. I just remember thinking it was really cool. ;)
>
>: Can anybody help me out?
>
>:          --------------------
>:             Jeff A. Harrell
>:            jharrell@dfw.net
>:      http://www.dfw.net/~jharrell
>:          --------------------
>
>Last I checked, the Apple IIc didn't come out until 1984. You would have
>needed a time machine to own one in 1982 or 1983 :)
>

I think you are wrong here.  You are thinking of the Apple IIe.  The IIc did come
out a couple of years earlier.

>The GUI for the Apple II was called GEOS. There was also a version of GEOS
>for the Commodore 64 computer.
>
>	Stavros
>




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