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Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, what a joke. really?
- Subject: Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, what a joke. really?
- From: jharrell@dfw.net (Jeff A. Harrell)
- Date: 1996/06/30
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Last of the Free Thinkers
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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.
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Jeff A. Harrell
jharrell@dfw.net
http://www.dfw.net/~jharrell
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