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Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, what a joke. really?



jharrell@dfw.net (Jeff A. Harrell) writes:
> In article <4r6r85$7s9@crl12.crl.com>, mpearce@crl.com (Matthew Pearce) wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >[snip]
> >: 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. ;)
> >
> >There was a version of GEOS for the Apple //e and //c.
> >Of course there is also GS/OS -GUI on the Apple ][.
> 
> No, the one I'm thinking of wasn't GEOS. I seem to remember it arrived in
> my little hands shortly after the release of the //gs in 1986...
> 
> Still looking.
> 
> Jeff.

You're thinking of Mousedesk.  Apple bundled it with the first few GS's way
back when (before the colour System 3.2 came out).  It did just about 
everything the GS Finder did, except that it didn't support NDA's.