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Re: 24-hour info line notes

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From: John D. Mitchell
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:05
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In article <Jan.8.12.42.50.1993.7667@pilot.njin.net>
birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag) writes:
[...]
>The pleasant female voice said that GEOS stood for "Graphical Environment
>Object System."  Last time I checked the O stood for "Operating."  Has this
>been changed?

GEOS is the name of the system and does *NOT* stand for anything.

[...]
>recording soon to include it.  The best quote was something to the effect of
>"Windows for Pen Computing will run on our high-end systems, but PC/GEOS is
>better for our current product line."

But why would anyone want to run much slower on much more expensive
hardware and that has a shorter battery life?  :-? :-)

>The developer info didn't say much I didn't already know, except that the
>Systems Software Overview is 50 pages, costs $15 plus $2 shipping/handling
>(considering that one of the AOL geos info files I uploaded to the net was
>197 pages, I _really_ think this document, particularly if it's already in
>GeoWrite form, should be made electronically available.  Seriously.) and
[...]

The System Software Overview has been completely rewritten and was not done
in GeoWrite (I don't know why not either).  And no it won't be posted
electronically.

Thanks,
	John
	johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU

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