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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I recently acquired an old 386 laptop with 4Mb ram and running Windows 3.1. That's it. Nothing Else. No Software whatsoever. Trying to get hold of Word Processor programs for it, which didn't eat up its limited memory, was pretty difficult. So I installed New Deal Release 3 Evaluation version of GEOS which includes WP, spreadsheet, and Database, plus games, and various other apps. The whole installation takes up less than 10mb, and compared to Win3.1 it's lightning fast. So now I have a dual booting 386 laptop which is just amazing. I did finally find the first 4 installation disks of Word for Win 3.1 at a car boot sale so I can even use that now. GEOS/NewDeal even lets me print to an old Panasonic laser printer too. I found the system so impressive I've now installed NewDeal Office 2000 on my main system which i can boot into and out of while still running Win98. It's a superb OS. Try it.