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

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In article <4r6r85$7s9@crl12.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.
>There was a version of GEOS for the Apple //e and //c.
>Of course there is also GS/OS -GUI on the Apple ][.
>
What dude #1 (not Matt) is thinking of was/is called MouseDesk.  Ran
in 128k.  Could launch apps and do simple Finder-like things, even
had a calculator (as long as you didn't run another program <grin>)
and some other toys in the GUI environment.  One of the most tricked-out
IIe machines I ever saw was from last year; family had MouseDesk on a
large monitor with a 40 meg HD and 256k and a TransWarp, it was so cute
it looked like a baby Mac.  :) 

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