Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 3rd Oct 2002 22:12 UTC
It is always an honour to interview people who have 'served' and worked on operating systems at the "golden" times of the operating systems, the '80s and pre-Win9x days. Today we interview Adam de Boor, who was the CTO at GeoWorks, developers of the GEOS, in the begining of the last decade. Adam today works for OpenWave Systems. We discuss about GeoWorks, its past, its future, where it should have been.
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Wow ... here's a name I haven't heard in ages. My first "real" computer was a KLH 286 (12Mhz) with 2 megs of RAM. I got it sometime around (I think) 1991 and it shipped with GeoWorks. At the time, I thought it was pretty much the coolest thing ever. It felt a lot more cohesive than the Windows of the day (3.0, I think). I ended up moving to Windows 3.1 when it was released, though ... which was also when I stopped using DR-DOS.
Now I'm looking down at this absurdly fast laptop, with its pretty bells and whistles and getting all nostalgic. I still remember trying desperately to get all my favorite apps crammed onto that old 40MB hard drive (which eventually burst into flames -- literally -- the smell was really awful), and how happy I was when I dropped in $125 worth of extra RAM -- 2MB, moving me up to a whopping 4MB total.
I think I'll see if I can dig up some old Windows 3.1 floppies and install it under Mandrake in a virtual machine just for old time's sake.