“GEOS did not pioneer the GUI most of its features were already present in the larger OSes of the day, like the classic Mac (albeit, not Windows),” writer Kroc Camen wrote of GEOS for OS News back in 2006. The platform, built by Berkeley Softworks-not to be confused with Berkeley Systems, which built the famous “flying toasters” screensaver -was one of the most popular pieces of software on Commodore 64 for a time, thanks to the fact that it was very functional and worked on very inexpensive hardware. It was an operating system for an era when it wasn’t even a sure thing we’d have a modem.Īnd it was absurdly lightweight, something it gained from its earliest form-as GEOS (Graphical Environment Operating System), an operating system option for the Commodore 64. In fact, one of the iconic GUI-based experiences of the era, AOL, hedged its bets for a while, creating and maintaining a DOS version of its iconic pseudo-internet software using a graphical user interface platform few were familiar with: GeoWorks. (Photo: Luca Boldrini/CC BY 2.0)Ī version of this post originally appeared on Tedium , a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.īack in the early ’90s, it wasn’t a sure thing that Microsoft Windows was going to take over the market, even though they had a clear lead over many of their competitors, thanks to MS-DOS.
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