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Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, what a joke. really? What the f***?)
- Subject: Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, what a joke. really? What the f***?)
- From: skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)
- Date: 1996/06/30
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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 :)
The GUI for the Apple II was called GEOS. There was also a version of GEOS
for the Commodore 64 computer.
Stavros