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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Back in the day I had a Commodore 64, a friend told me about GEOS and I tried it. That was the first GUI I had ever used, having learned from the command line on UNIX systems, I was literally screaming "YES!! YES!! this is what computers should DO!"
For quite a while I was definitely a GEOS evangelist. Too bad things didn't work out. I bet I have those disks around here someplace.....
Back in the day I had a Commodore 64, a friend told me about GEOS and I tried it. That was the first GUI I had ever used, having learned from the command line on UNIX systems, I was literally screaming "YES!! YES!! this is what computers should DO!"
For quite a while I was definitely a GEOS evangelist. Too bad things didn't work out. I bet I have those disks around here someplace.....