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  • The Internet that could have been...

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to All on Wednesday, April 03, 2024 15:00:27
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSjlZeqKOc&feature=youtu.be

    An interesting "what-if".

    Digital Research licenses DOS to IBM, keeps rights.
    Digital Research and Word Perfect merge...
    "Perfect Digital" buys a browser, takes the world by storm with Gem/95 desktop...
    Apple goes for Be instead of Next
    Micro-soft is a little browser company in Seattle.

    A long watch, but worth the time.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, April 03, 2024 15:51:40
    Re: The Internet that could have been...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Apr 03 2024 03:00 pm

    Apple goes for Be instead of Next

    I heard about BeOS in the late 90s, and I thought it was really interesting. After Apple chose not to acquire them, they ported BeOS to x86-compatible PCs. In 1998 or 1999, I bought a copy of BeOS 4.5 and installed it on a secondary PC I had. I thought it was really nice - It was very fast and responsive, and I think the GUI looked very nice too. I would have really liked to see BeOS capture the market from Microsoft Windows, but by then I knew it was already too late for something like that.

    I think it's interesting that the Haiku project has now re-created BeOS as an open-source project. I've seen people posting about Haiku being more and more mature now, and I've seen some people say they're using it for their daily OS now.

    Nightfox

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  • From Skylar@VERT to Nightfox on Thursday, April 04, 2024 19:21:51
    Re: The Internet that could have been...
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Apr 03 2024 03:51 pm

    Apple goes for Be instead of Next

    I heard about BeOS in the late 90s, and I thought it was really interesting.

    Before BeOS, I used GeoWorks and loved it. Then again, I'd been using GEOS on my C64 and GEOS 128 on my C128 for years.

    It wasn't a full OS, more of a "GUI workbench with apps". But not a lot of apps were available.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Skylar on Friday, April 05, 2024 08:27:29
    Re: The Internet that could have been...
    By: Skylar to Nightfox on Thu Apr 04 2024 07:21 pm

    Before BeOS, I used GeoWorks and loved it. Then again, I'd been using GEOS on my C64 and GEOS 128 on my C128 for years.

    It wasn't a full OS, more of a "GUI workbench with apps".

    I'd heard about GeOS, but I never used it. I think I first heard about GeOS around 1995 or 1996, and by then I'm not sure if it was actively developed anymore..?

    From what I heard, it sounded like GeOS performed better than Windows at the time. I often thought it was a bummer that Windows became the dominant computer platform when there were better alternatives available. I thought OS/2 was good too..

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Saturday, April 06, 2024 10:04:00
    Nightfox wrote to Skylar <=-

    I'd heard about GeOS, but I never used it. I think I first heard about GeOS around 1995 or 1996, and by then I'm not sure if it was actively developed anymore..?

    GEOS for the 64 was the basis for QuantumLink, the predecessor to AOL.
    It was an interesting GUI at the time.

    From what I heard, it sounded like GeOS performed better than Windows
    at the time. I often thought it was a bummer that Windows became the dominant computer platform when there were better alternatives
    available. I thought OS/2 was good too..

    I had a 386SX/16 with 4 mb of RAM that mostly ran Windows 3.1, but I
    spent most of my time in DOS or GeoWorks on it. Geoworks came with a
    bunch of apps, looked like the UNIX systems I used (Motif WM on
    UNIXWare) and ran well on my system.

    I bought a copy that came with Borland Quattro for DOS, which was why I
    bought it - I couldn't afford 1-2-3 and all of the pirate boards I
    frequented were focused more on games than business apps.




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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, April 07, 2024 13:59:05
    Re: Re: The Internet that could have been...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Apr 06 2024 10:04 am

    GEOS for the 64 was the basis for QuantumLink, the predecessor to AOL. It was an interesting GUI at the time.

    I'd heard that. And I thought I'd heard GEOS for DOS was also used for the AOL client for DOS PCs.

    Nightfox

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