Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, what a joke. really? What the f***?)

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <jharrell-3006961343270001@news.dfw.net>,
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?
>
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>            Jeff A. Harrell
>           jharrell@dfw.net
>     http://www.dfw.net/~jharrell
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Yes, I believe it was.  Or at least, distributed by Apple.

Look on the various FTP sites for "Finder8".  I used it on my //e
for a while; it's wicked slow without an accelerator, and tolerable with.

As far as interfaces go, it's "ok", but not great.  I remember liking Davex
much more.

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