Subj : Re: GEOS
To   : J.B. Wood
From : Silver Dream !
Date : Wed Sep 02 2020 08:59 pm

On 02/09/2020 13:11, J.B. Wood wrote:


> Hello, and while some vendors may have put bundles together (anyone old
> enough to remember Protecto Enterprises?), AFAIK GEOS was a
> separately-sold product.  I still have GEOS, DeskPack Plus, geoChart,
> geoFile and geoCalc for the C-64.  Cost a few bucks but IMHO these
> products were probably as close as you could get to "killer" apps on a
> C-64,

I remember doing rather sizeable spreadsheets on GeoCalc, which threw
the other C64 spreadsheet applications (I don't remember the names -
multiplan I think was one and the other don't remember - visicalc?) on
their knees, with quite reasonable performance.

  given its limitations as a practical small business platform, let
> alone home use for MS Office-like stuff.  GEOS with its companion apps
> did some great Macintosh-like things but oh so slowly if all you had was
> one (not advisable) or two 1541 drives.  You really needed a 1750 RAM
> expansion or the GEOS RAM cart to get things moving.

True that. 1581 was already a good start as one could put/fit all needed
things on one disk. But only adding RAM card made it fly.

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